The Q-Sort Method: Assessing Reliability And Construct Validity Of Questionnaire Items At A Pre-Testing Stage

By Abraham Y. Nahm, S. Subba Rao, Luis E. Solis-Galvan, T. S. Ragu-Nathan. 2002

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This paper describes the Q-sort, which is a method of assessing reliability and construct validity of questionnaire items at a pre-testing stage. The method uses Cohen’s Kappa and Moore and Benbasat’s Hit Ratio in assessing the question­ naire. Two examples are provided on how the method was applied in survey research.

Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Management Science and Operations Research

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• Explaining the link between technostress and technology addiction for social networking sites: A study of distraction as a coping behavior (2019, methodology): “…each distraction within SNS and four items for distraction outside SNS. Step 2: Q-sort for assessment of content validity In a next step, we assessed the content validity of the new items by undertaking the Q-sort procedure as suggested in prior research (Landis and Koch 1977; Nahm et al. 2002).”