Begin with a large number of statements relevant to the attitude that can be identified as favorable or unfavorable. Scale values are assigned to each statement, based upon the average sort position. 20-22 statements that span the scale of favorableness are selected. Attitude measure from final scale is sum of scale values for all items checked. My dream in life is to be able to own expensive things.
People judge others by the things they own.
Money is the most important thing to consider in choosing a job. Alpha is acceptable, and was calibrated at .60. This means that the estimated correlation of this scale with the TRUE unobservable measure is .36. This scale was developed and tested on a sample of 806 adolescents, aged 12-18. The list of six items was reduced from a longer list, using item-total correlations to shorten the list to six items.