This scales book is a classic in psychometrics. It is instrumental for survey researchers in the fields of advertising, marketing, consumer psychology, and other related fields that rely largely on attitudinal measures. My copy has gotten me through years of field research by helping provide testable, reliable scales.
crisis
The scale has four, seven-point bi-polar adjectives that measure how much an event is viewed not only as bad but also as a crisis.
A Likert-type scale with five statements measure the degree to which a person believes that ecological crises are likely to occur because of harmful human activity.
The severity of a country's need for help to alleviate a plight or other unfortunate condition is measured in the scale with four statements. Because one of the items contains the term "unjust," the scale is most appropriate for use in contexts where the problem is man-made, e.g., social injustice.
This is a three-item, six-point, Likert-type scale that measures the degree to which a consumer's sense of energy conservation has influenced his/her lifestyle.
