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Investigating the effects of item wording on rating responses.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Investigating the effects of item wording on rating responses./
作者:	Woo, Annie.
面頁冊數:	119 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-02, Section: A, page: 0586.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International61-02A.
標題:	Education, Tests and Measurements. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9963432
ISBN:	0599677309

Investigating the effects of item wording on rating responses.
Woo, Annie.

Investigating the effects of item wording on rating responses. - 119 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-02, Section: A, page: 0586.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University, 1999.

The purpose of the study was to investigate how item wording affected rating responses. Semantic negative and positive items measuring the same construct, in the form of a Likert-type scale, were tested on a sample of students enrolled in middle schools in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan. The psychometric properties of each item (means, standard deviation, skewness, and kurtosis) were examined as a function of four modes of item wording. The four modes were: Mode 1 (regular), "I like myself"; Mode 2 (negated), "I do not like myself"; Mode 3 (polar opposite), "I dislike myself"; and Mode 4 (negated polar opposite), "I do not dislike myself." A hierarchical measurement model regarding the relationship between the modes of item wording and the responses was constructed. A hierarchical confirmatory analysis estimated the correlations between the item scores and the four modes of item wording. The correlations between four versions of a shame scale and a measure of anxiety (DOSC Anxiety Factor) and of life satisfaction (Satisfaction with Life Scale) were also computed.

ISBN: 0599677309Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017589
Education, Tests and Measurements.

Investigating the effects of item wording on rating responses.
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520 $a The purpose of the study was to investigate how item wording affected rating responses. Semantic negative and positive items measuring the same construct, in the form of a Likert-type scale, were tested on a sample of students enrolled in middle schools in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan. The psychometric properties of each item (means, standard deviation, skewness, and kurtosis) were examined as a function of four modes of item wording. The four modes were: Mode 1 (regular), "I like myself"; Mode 2 (negated), "I do not like myself"; Mode 3 (polar opposite), "I dislike myself"; and Mode 4 (negated polar opposite), "I do not dislike myself." A hierarchical measurement model regarding the relationship between the modes of item wording and the responses was constructed. A hierarchical confirmatory analysis estimated the correlations between the item scores and the four modes of item wording. The correlations between four versions of a shame scale and a measure of anxiety (DOSC Anxiety Factor) and of life satisfaction (Satisfaction with Life Scale) were also computed.
520 $a Pearson correlation coefficients were obtained for each of these subscales (Mode 1 to Mode 4), DOSC-Anxiety Factor, Satisfaction with Life Scale, and gender. The Pearson correlation coefficients ranged from --0.133 to 0.898. Gender had low correlation coefficients with the four modes, DOSC, and Satisfaction with Life Factor, ranging from --0.133 to 0.128. There seems to be not much relationship between gender and these scales.
520 $a The MANOVA results showed that the responses to the modes of item wording are significantly different between male and female. The F-ratios of Mode 1, Mode 2, and Mode 3 were all significant at the 0.05 level. Mode 4 was not significant at the 0.05 level. These results were similar to that of the correlational analyses. It seems that Mode 4, which has double negative semantics, introduced some ambiguity to the items.
520 $a To determine whether the four Modes of semantics measured the same construct, five models were tested in a confirmatory factor analysis. The 2-factor model (Modes 1, 2, & 3 vs. Mode 4) fit the data statistically and showed an overwhelming superiority over the other models. These results rendered strong indications of the inequivalence between double negatives (Mode 4) and the rest of the items (Modes 1, 2, & 3).
520 $a Though it may be useful to include some negative items to reduce a response bias, the findings from the present study suggest that special caution should be exercised in the use of double negative item phrasing. Despite the conventional wisdom so often found in measurement textbooks, recent findings by researchers in the area of item phrasing have suggested that negatively phrased items, especially double negatives, may reduce the validity of a questionnaire. The present study clearly corroborates this position.
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