Scaling back survey scales:How short is too short?  

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Vandivere, Sharon ; Moore, Kristin Anderson ; Halle, Tamara G. ; Mariner, Carrie L.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Sociological Methods & Research (SMR) vol. 30 no. 04 (May 2002), page 530-567.
Topik: Environment; validity; Survey scales; children's development

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Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: S28 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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To understand children's development one must examine an array of constructs. Yet the time and budget constraints of large-scale survey research create a dilemma: how to cut scales to the fewest possible items while still retaining their predictive properties. In this article. the authors compare the predictive validity of several shortened versions of the Behavior Problems Index and the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment-Short Form with their full scales within the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-/979 cohort. They use the scales to predict delinquency, reading recognition scores. parent-child activities, and smoking behavior of children at ages 13 or 14 from data gathered 2.4. and 6 years prior. Analyses leave the authors cautiously optimistic that short scales, especially scales composed of items gathered at different time points and repeated regularly. may enjoy substantial predictive power. However. two-item scales may be too short, and psychometric study on additional scales is warranted.

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