I have included a relatively new construct in my research area. I have found limited literature support for existing scale/items about this construct. I have developed few items from some related constructs in a very few recent papers. How should I proceed to fine tune that construct for quantitative analysis?
Dear Gobinda
Please contact my colleague Giancarlo Dal Bo, who is defending his Doctoral Thesis today ... he created a new scale to measure a construct (use value ?!). Perhaps he has material on it.
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Best regards
Prof. Alex Eckert
Universidade de Caxias do Sul - UCS (Brazil)
Have you already collected the data, or are you still developing the measure. If you are in a developmental stage, then you are essentially dealing with "content validity" and one way to assess that would be to a panel of experts review your proposed measure.
Hi David,
Thanks for your view and suggestion. My research has not been solely based on scale development. I have few constructs, but only one has limited data and exiting scale. As you mentioned, I like to conduct an expert interview for content validity of that construct. Thanks
Dear Emre,
Could you please share the reference of the paper you mentioned? Thanks for your suggestion.
Hi,
I have done scale validation for some constructs using mixed method research where the content validity was established using qualitative phase (consisting of semi-structured interviews and FGD) followed by discriminant, convergent and nomological validity using quantitative phase (Confirmatory factor analysis). The idea is to first understand the perspectives of the population using qualitative techniques- develop items or adapt existing ones and then do final validation using quantitative techniques.
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