As a result of the new factor analysis, the scale with 3 factors was found as kmo. General attitudes towards marriage scale 6 instruments. Listed below are several statements that reflect different attitudes about sex. Likert technique of attitude scale construction in nursing research. A 42item questionnaire designed to measure attitudes toward love. The results confirm crosscultural stability of the sixdimensional structure of the love attitude scale. The brief sexual attitudes scale bsas is a 23item condensed version of the sexual attitudes scale that was developed in response to concerns about the psychometric properties of measure as well as colleagues requests for a shorter instrument brauncourville and rojas journal of adolescent health 45. Follow the directions, and mark you responses to the statements below. Directions for each of the following statements, circle the number that most nearly describes your attitude or belief. For each statement select the response on the answer scale that indicates how much you agree or disagree with that statement. The love attitudes scale las is a wellstandardized measure of six of lees. Developing, implementing, evaluation of an attitude scale for. This scale has 24 items which measures six love styles namely eros, ludus, storge, pragma, mania and agape. Adolescent time attitude scale atas scores and academic.
Love attitude scale lifespan development lumen learning. We explored the factor structure of the love attitude scale, analyzed relationships between its subscales, and examined relevant correlates of its dimensions. Although sexual harassment remains a common problem in the workplace, many victims and witnesses fail to report it to organizational authorities. None of the thurstone scales, 28 percent of the seman. Pdf investigating the factor structure of the love attitude scale. Dysfunctional attitudes and affective responses to daily.
After reading each sentence carefully, circle the number that best represents the. For each scale, the number of respondents in the test group whose attitudes changed was compared, with the aid of the chisquare test, to the same number in the control group. Correlates of the revised subscales correspond to those obtained with the original scale and in other countries. Each scale item gives a numerical result depending on how the respondent answers, and the results of all the scale items can be combined to produce an overall score that represents the persons attitude towards whatever the researcher is interested in. Likert items and scales rob johns university of strathclyde 1. Concepts, questionnaires, utilizations project report university of melbourneaustralia january 2005 available at. The love attitude scale, created by clyde hendrick and susan hendrick, measures your attitudes about each of the styles. We investigate the reliability and validity of the love attitude scale las in this study. This test has six sections to help you learn what your style of loving is. The original has 42 items, making up 6 different subscales each with 7 items that. Download limit exceeded you have exceeded your daily download allowance.
The same four subscales of permissiveness, birth control formerly called sexual practices, communion, and instrumentality were retained in the 23item measure, called the brief sexual attitudes scale. The thurstone scale is made up of statements about a particular issue and each statement has a numerical value indicating the repsondents attitude about the issue, either favorable or unfavorable. David knox this scale is designed to assess the degree to which you are romantic or realistic in your attitudes toward love. Investigating the factor structure of the love attitude scale las. It is best to give up my own interest in order to please other people. The reliability analysis effectively confirms its strength see table 2. Sternbergs triangular love scale over read each of the following statements, filling in the blank spaces with the name of one person you love or care for deeply.
The celebrity attitude scale the purpose of this survey is to identify your views about famous persons. Whenever possible, answer the questions with your current partner in mind. Abstract the present study examined the association of love attitudes with the initiation, maintenance, and dissolution of relationships. This article describes development of the family attitude scale fas, a 30item instrument that can be completed by any informant. Psychometric characteristics of the revised attitudes toward. Psychometric characteristics of the revised attitudes toward intimate partner violence scale among college students in costa rica derby munozrojasa, brian e.
In order to maintain the integrity of the study all questions must be answered in order to save your results. Journal of social behavior and personality, 5, 239254. Almost everyone would recognise this type of survey. Hendrick and hendrick the journal of sex research 23. Directions for each of the following statements, write the number 15 that most nearly describes your attitude or belief. The histogram of that scale values is given in graph 1. Pdf psychometric properties of the love attitudes scale in peruvian. This measure is a modified version of the original love attitudes scale which measured both romantic and not. Chinese students attitudes toward seeking professional. Initial assessment of the psychometric properties of the sexual harassment reporting attitudes scale brian cesario1, elizabeth parksstamm2 and mujgan turgut1 abstract. Development and validation of a scale for measuring. Rate your agreement with each statement according to the following scale, and enter the appropriate number between 1 and 9. Attitude scale factor analysis results for science and technology lesson attitude items factors and load of factors.
There are no right or wrong answers, so please answer as openly and thoughtfully as you can. Initial assessment of the psychometric properties of the. Journal of personal and social relationships, 15, 147159. Attitude of teacher trainees towards ict teaching 200 1. Article information, pdf download for the love attitudes scale. Pdf an examination and revision of the love attitude scale in. An examination and revision of the love attitude scale in serbia. Some of the items refer to a specific love relationship, while others refer to general attitudes and. The ubiquitous likert item the question above, taken from the 2007 british social attitudes survey, is an example of a likert item. Its psychometric characteristics are reported in parents of undergraduate students and in 70 families with a schizophrenic member.
Pdf reliability and validity of the chinese love attitude scale. This scale was developed by william yarber, mohammad torabi, and c. Journal of social and personal relationships, 15, 147159. Love styles, triangular love and relationship satisfaction 1 city university of hong kong. The love attitudes scale las is a wellstandardized measure of six of lees 1973 love styles. The evidencebased practice attitude scale36 ebpas36. Construct validity of the attitude scale was established. Criticism will obviously upset the person who receives the criticism. Results revealed that chinese students possessed generally positive attitudes and their attitudes were significantly associated with gender, prior counseling contact and prior knowledge about counseling and.
Article pdf available june 2012 with,084 reads how we measure reads a read is counted each time someone views a. The atas consists of six subscales past positive, past negative, present positive, present negative, future positive, and future negative and is intended to assess. Using three samples total n 529, the compassionate love scale was developed and piloted. A 42item measure of love attitudes directed toward a specific love relationship. Statistically significant sex differences are indicated, as well as the sex with the higher amount of the. Pdf likert technique of attitude scale construction in. Strongly agree slightly agree neutral slightly disagree strongly disagree. Abstract while risk behavior has been studied intensely and a large number of risk perception. A descriptive study of undergraduate contraceptive attitudes. A descriptive study of undergraduate contraceptive attitudes among students at the university of new hampshire introduction nearly half of all pregnancies in the united states are unintended, the highest of this instance occurs between 1824 years of age. Therefore we first keep a religiosity scale equal to the sum of all the items in table 1. A compassionate love scale was developed that can be used, in alternative forms, to assess compassionate or altruistic love for different targets e.
For each of the following statements, write the number 15 that most nearly describes your attitude or belief. Four in ten of all unintended pregnancies are terminated by abortion guttmacher, 2011. Nov 10, 2007 in this study 1,453 chinese high school and college students attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help and factors contributing to attitude differences were examined. A relationshipspecific version of the love attitudes scale. The construction of attitude scales covering the main value. The evidencebased practice attitude scale ebpas50 ebpas50 is a 50item instrument developed to assess mental health and social service providers attitudes toward adopting ebp. Respondents completed the love attitudes scale and a questionnaire designed to measure experiences at each stage of relationship development. In 2007, mello and worrell developed the adolescent time attitude scale atas to provide an instrument that was useful for studying time attitudes in secondary school students. People indicate which of the statements with which they agree and the average response is computed. Ludus was relevant to all stages of relationship development. In table 2 rotated basic components analysis is seen.