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EVALUATION OF TWO FORCED‐CHOICE RESPONSE FORMATS 1
Author(s) -
WATERS L. K.,
WHERRY R. J.
Publication year - 1961
Publication title -
personnel psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.076
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1744-6570
pISSN - 0031-5826
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6570.1961.tb01234.x
Subject(s) - statement (logic) , two alternative forced choice , psychology , sample (material) , rating scale , subject (documents) , social psychology , degree (music) , statistics , cognitive psychology , mathematics , computer science , linguistics , developmental psychology , thermodynamics , physics , library science , philosophy , acoustics
Summary T he reactions of a sample of flight candidates in the U. S. Naval School, Pre‐Flight were used to investigate the effect of response format on subject resistance to a forced‐choice self‐rating scale. The results indicated that the subjects were more favorable toward a response format allowing them to indicate the degree of applicability of each statement in the forced‐choice pairs, even though still forced to choose one statement as relatively more applicable.