Summary
Contents
Subject index
In addition to hundreds of new references features new to this edition include: a comprehensive introduction to qualitative methods including a review of existing computer applications for collecting and analyzing data; the latest information about the use of computers and online research techniques, including the use of the Internet to locate actual research instruments and journal articles; updated coverage on new scales, internal and external validity, and new analytic techniques with extensive references on each; abstracts, citations and subject groupings by measurement tool of the last five years of the American Sociological Review, Social Psychology Quarterly, and the American Journal of Sociology; extensive coverage of how to prepare manuscripts for publication, including a list of all journals covered by Sociological Abstracts along with the editorial office address and URL for each entry; new coverage of ethical issues; expansion of social indicators to include international coverage; discussion of the importance of policy research with presentation and discussion of specific models as an adjunct to both applied and basic research techniques; and the addition of an index to facilitate the reader's ability to quickly locate a topic.
Measures of Personality and Social Psychological Attitudes
Measures of Personality and Social Psychological Attitudes
This book, published in 1991, is Volume 1 in the Measures of Social Psychological Attitudes series by Academic Press. Its editors are John P Robinson, Phillip R. Shaver, and Lawrence S. Wrightsman. The main items in the table of contents are reproduced below. Most chapters contain reference sections and directions for future research.
Chapter 1: Criteria for Scale Selection and Evaluation
- John P. Robinson, Phillip R. Shaver, and Lawrence S. Wrightsman
- Contents of This Volume
- A Broader Conceptual Framework
- Evaluative Criteria
- Future Volumes
- Bibliography
Chapter 2: Measurement and Control of Response Bias
- Delroy L. Paulhus
- Socially Desirable Responding
- Measures Reviewed Here
- Edwards Social Desirability Scale (Edwards, 1957)
- Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale (Crowne & ...
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