Measuring social life feelings /
Karl F. Schuessler.
- First edition.
- xviii, 183 pages ; 24 cm.
- The Jossey-Bass social and behavioral science series .
- Jossey-Bass social and behavioral science series. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-174) and index.
Issues in measuring people's social life feelings -- Using agree-disagree items to measure feelings -- Selecting statements and constructing the scales -- Comparing social life feeling scales to other measures -- How social background influences people's responses -- Relation of scores to the ways people respond to questions -- Evaluating the reliability and validity of social life feeling scales -- Appendixes: Design and collection of data 00 A.: Constructing the content domain -- B.: Questionnaire construction -- C.: Sampling and interviewing -- D.: Adjusting the data -- E.: Statistical formulas.