Calculating, Interpreting, And Reporting Cronbach’s Alpha Reliability Coefficient For Likert-Type Scales

By J. Gliem, R. Gliem. 2003

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A method to standardize usability metrics into a single score (2005, background): “The average of the responses (instead of the response from only one question) provided a less error-prone score and one more descriptive of the users’ perceived sense of usability, see [34 esp p.15], [27], [40] and [13].”
Do tests of divergent thinking have an experiential bias (2010, background): “Standardized alphas, such as these, are appropriate when the individual items are not scaled the same (Gliem & Gliem, 2003).”
Impact of Reward and Recognition on Job Satisfaction and Motivation (2015, methodology): “Using Likert-scale type demands that the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient for internal consistency is calculated and the result ranges from 0 to 1 (Gliem and Gliem, 2003).”
Using Likert-Type Scales in the Social Sciences. (2011, background): “Cronbach’s alpha does not provide reliability estimates for single items” (Gliem & Gliem, 2003).”
Does Project-Based Learning (PBL) Promote Student Learning? A Performance Evaluation (2020, background): “It is imperative to report the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient for internal consistency reliability for any scales or subscales used in research [43,44].”
Within-Culture Variations of Collectivism in Japan (2012, methodology): “As for corrected item-total correlations, all items were above .40, which is the recommended value by Gliem and Gliem (2003).”
Capturing the behavioural determinants behind the adoption of autonomous vehicles: Conceptual frameworks and measurement models to predict public transport, sharing and ownership trends of self-driving cars (2019, background): “The coefficient ranges between 0 and 1, and the closer it is to 1, the greater the internal consistency of the items in the scale (Gliem and Gliem, 2003).”
Teacher Digital Literacy: The Indisputable Challenge after COVID-19 (2021, background): “The closer the Cronbach’s Alpha is to 1 the greater the internal consistency of the analyzed items will be [36,37].”
Motivating Action through Fostering Climate Change Hope and Concern and Avoiding Despair among Adolescents (2015, methodology): “We used Cronbach’s alpha to measure internal reliability, or the degree to which items within the scale measure the same construct [29].”
Ideology, motivated reasoning, and cognitive reflection (2013, result): “The Conserv_Repub scale is a more reliable measure of the subjects’ ideological dispositions than either of its components alone, and thus supports more reliable inferences about the relationship between political outlooks and CRT scores (Gliem & Gliem, 2003).”
What cognitive mechanisms predict travel mode choice? A systematic review with meta-analysis (2017, methodology): “Third, did the study use reliable and valid measures as assessed by use of previously validated/tested/used measures and reporting of internal scale reliability (α > 0.6) (Gliem & Gliem, 2003).”
Corporate social responsibility and firm performance: The mediating role of marketing competence and the moderating role of market environment (2015, background): “Five coefficients are above the good level of internal consistency (α > .7) and two variables have acceptable coefficients (α > .6) (Gliem & Gliem, 2003).”
Learning with mobile technologies - Students' behavior (2017, background): “This parameter has a value between 0 and 1 and the closer is to 1.0 the greater the internal consistency of the items in the scale (Gliem & Gliem, 2003).”