Scale Development: Theory and Applications (Applied Social Research Methods) - Softcover

DeVellis, Robert F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412980445 ISBN 13: 9781412980449

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2011

Synopsis

This book presents complex concepts in a way that helps students to understand the logic underlying the creation, use, and evaluation of measurement instruments and to develop a more intuitive feel for how scales work. Robert DeVellis demystifies measurement by relating it to familiar experiences and by emphasizing a conceptual rather than a strictly mathematical understanding. Students′ attention is drawn to important concepts that are foundational for subsequent topics, with opportunities provided to test understanding through chapter summaries and exercises.

Scale Development is widely adopted on graduate courses in departments of psychology, public health, nursing, education, and marketing, and has proved invaluable to applied researchers across the social sciences.

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About the Author

Robert F. DeVellis is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Health Behavior (Gillings School of Global Public Health) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. DeVellis has more than 40 years of experience in the measurement of psychological and social variables. He served as the first domain chair for Social Outcomes of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) consortium, a multisite National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap initiative directed at identifying, modifying, testing, and disseminating outcome measures for use by NIH investigators. He has served on the Board of Directors for the American Psychological Association’s Division of Health Psychology (38), on the Arthritis Foundation’s Clinical/Outcomes/Therapeutics Research Study Section, and on the Advisory Board of the Veterans Affairs Measurement Excellence Initiative. He is the recipient of the 2005 Distinguished Scholar Award from the Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals and is an associate editor of Arthritis Care and Research. In addition, he has served as guest editor, guest associate editor, or reviewer for more than two dozen other journals. He has served as principal investigator or co-investigator since the early 1980s on a series of research projects funded by the federal government and private foundations.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1412980445
• ISBN 13: 9781412980449
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 216