#Likert scale validity and reliability full

Since its proposition, it has been used in numerous fields, especially in psychology, sociology, education, business administration, anthropology, among many other fields in the social sciences and humanities. In the paper, Likert addressed a problem presented in 1929, by psychologist Gardner Murphy on five areas of attitudes, and his suggestions led to the simplification of the Thurstone measurement technique ( Thurstone, 1928), which was the basis for the psychometric theory of attitude measurement. He created the summed or attitudes scales in 1932, in his seminal article entitled The Technique for the Measurement of Attitudes ( Likert, 1932). The most widely used, and misused, approaches to measuring attitudes are the Likert-type scales, named after Rensis Likert. The origins of measurement stem from the work of social psychologists in the 1920s and 1930s that raised the topic to a higher level of empiricism and established the foundations of current research in this area. Measurement of attitudes is a topic of keen interest in the social sciences and related fields.

#Likert scale validity and reliability full

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