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Direct linkLorenzo-Seva, Urbano; Rodriguez-Fornells, Antoni – Psychometrika, 2006
Personality tests often consist of a set of dichotomous or Likert items. These response formats are known to be susceptible to an agreeing-response bias called acquiescence. The common assumption in balanced scales is that the sum of appropriately reversed responses should be reasonably free of acquiescence. However, inter-item correlation (or…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Correlation, Factor Structure, Personality Measures
