Effects of Stem and Likert Response Option Reversals on Survey Internal Consistency: If You Feel the Need, There is a Better Alternative to Using those Negatively Worded Stems

By J. Barnette. 2000

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Management Science and Operations Research

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Shifting gears: consequences of including two negatively worded items in the middle of a positively worded questionnaire (2010, background): “Our results support the findings of researchers who question the value of negative items because they are prone to errors of carelessness (e.g. Barnette 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001; Schmitt and Stults 1985).”
Characteristics of Single-Item Measures in Likert Scale Format (2010, methodology): “Negatively-worded items tend to lower the reliability of multi-item scales as measured by Cronbach‟s alpha by as much as 20% (Schriesheim et al. 1991; Barnette 2000), and confound measures in cross-cultural research, hampering measurement invariance (Wong et al. 2003).”
Development and Validation of an Instrument for Assessing Distance Education Learning Environments in Higher Education: The Distance Education Learning Environments Survey (DELES) (2005, background): “, those responses marked without the respondent making a conscious choice) (Barnette, 2000).”
Measurement of Perceived Organizational Readiness for Change in the Public Sector (2009, unknown): “Furthermore, scale reliabilities have been found to suffer when positively and negatively worded items are included in the same scale (Barnette, 2000; Weems, Onwuegbuzie and Lustig, 2003).”
Usability: Lessons Learned … and Yet to Be Learned (2014, unknown): “…tone because it can create undesirable structure in a metric in which positive items align with one factor and negative items align with the other (Barnette, 2000; Davis, 1989; Pilotte & Gable, 1990; Schmitt & Stuits, 1985; Schriesheim & Hill, 1981; Stewart & Frye, 2004; Wong, Rindﬂeisch, &…”
Psychological Capital: An Evidence-Based Positive Approach (2017, background): “Such items tend to be problematic in general (Barnette 2000, Merritt 2012, Tomas & Oliver 1999), and particularly in measuring positive constructs.”
The Body Appreciation Scale-2: item refinement and psychometric evaluation. (2015, background): “Indeed, Barnette (2000) argued that the advantages of including negatively scored items do not outweigh the disadvantages.”
The Factor Structure of the System Usability Scale (2009, background): “Otherwise, the more recent analyses have been somewhat consistent with a general alignment of positive- and negative-tone items on separate factors—the type of unintentional structure that can occur with sets of mixed-tone items (Barnette, 2000; Davis, 1989; Pilotte & Gable, 1990; Schmitt & Stuits, ”
Development and Validation of an Instrument to Measure Students’ Motivation and Self‐Regulation in Science Learning (2011, methodology): “We undertook five thorough revisions of the list of items: (1) rephrasing of ambiguous sentences to provide clear and concise statements; (2) removing negatively worded items to eliminate unnecessary confusion (Barnette, 2000); (3) simplifying items that were too long to ensure succinct representati”