Best Practices for Developing and Validating Scales for Health, Social, and Behavioral Research: A Primer
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Summary
This primer will equip both scientists and practitioners to understand the ontology and methodology of scale development and validation, thereby facilitating the advancement of the understanding of a range of health, social, and behavioral outcomes.
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- review
- Published
- 2018-06-11
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- 4,944
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- 161
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- Open access
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- https://openalex.org/W2801702920
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Keywords
Scale (ratio), Jargon, Resource (disambiguation), Best practice, Computer science
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