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Tom Prinsen, Ph.D.
Global Manager Market Intelligence, Biomet Orthope


This three-item, seven-point scale measures a person’s inclination at the current time to react toward others in a physically violent manner if threatened.  The wording of the items is meant to focus participants’ responses on their current states rather than their longer-term trait-like tendencies. 

A person's tendency to learn about and adopt innovations (new products) within a specific domain of interest is measured with six, five-point Likert-type items.  The scale is intended to be distinct from a generalized personality trait at one extreme and a highly specific, single product purchase at the other extreme.

Seven, seven-point items measure how willing a person is to engage in relationships with people who have a mental illness.

Four statements measure a person’s belief that when posting information on social media, he/she is more revealing and less restrained about expressing thoughts and feelings. 

The three, seven-point Likert-type items in this scale measure the degree to which a person who has visited a place (unidentified in the items) is willing to visit it again if the same level of service is provided.  The scale appears to be amenable for use with hotels, restaurants, resorts, and a wide variety of other places that people go to which provide some degree of service which can affect one’s intention of returning to in the future.


Three, five-point items are used to measure how much a person attends to radio, T.V., and movies that are just in English, are about the same amount in both languages, or are only in Spanish.


How much a consumer wants to know more about a particular sale is measured with three, seven-point items.

With five, five-point items, the scale measures the degree to which a person is able to read and speak just English and not Spanish, is able to read and speak both languages equally well, or is only fluent in Spanish..