Best Practices for Developing and Validating Scales for Health, Social, and Behavioral Research: A Primer

• Main Authors: Godfred O. Boateng (Author), Torsten B. Neilands (Author), Edward A. Frongillo (Author), Hugo R. Melgar-Quiñonez (Author), Sera L. Young (Author)
• Formato: Libro
• Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A., 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Scale development and validation are critical to much of the work in the health, social, and behavioral sciences. However, the constellation of techniques required for scale development and evaluation can be onerous, jargon-filled, unfamiliar, and resource-intensive. Further, it is often not a part...