Classical and Modern Methods of Psychological Scale Construction

By L. Simms. 2008

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Ten Steps in Scale Development and Reporting: A Guide for Researchers (2018, methodology): “Simms (2008) argued, “The apparent simplicity and efficiency of the [survey] method can be illusionary, as much time, and consideration are needed to develop measures that allow us to make reliable and valid inferences about people (p. 414).””
The Questionnaire for Eudaimonic Well-Being: Psychometric properties, demographic comparisons, and evidence of validity (2010, unknown): “Here too, the evaluative approach adopted is consistent with the guidelines advocated by Simms (2008) with regard to both the use of a range of validity strategies and the assessment of a relatively broad nomological net of variables whose degree of association with the construct under study was exp”
Beyond confidence: Development of a measure assessing the 5C psychological antecedents of vaccination (2018, methodology): “] and representative of all potentially important aspects of the target construct” [59].”
Measure Twice, Cut down Error: A Process for Enhancing the Validity of Survey Scales (2011, methodology): “Rather we strive to synthesize several known (though not necessarily widely known) survey design practices to create a new process that differs importantly from previous processes (e.g., Clark & Watson, 1995; Comrey, 1988; Simms, 2008) in three main ways.”