Comparison of Dichotomous and Likert Formats
- 1 October 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 27 (2), 481-482
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1970.27.2.481
Abstract
Responses to true-false and Likert forms of che Marlowe- Crowne Social Desirability Scale correlated significantly. Perhaps the apparently higher precision of the Likert formar can be used to reduce the number of irems of lengthy dichotomous inventories.Keywords
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