TY - BOOK AU - Roberts, Caroline AU - Jowell, Roger TI - Attitude Measurement Vol. - I: Basic Concepts and Historical Foundations SN - 9781412928403 U1 - 303.38 PY - 2008/// CY - London PB - Sage Publications KW - Public Opinions N1 - VOLUME 1: BASIC CONCEPTS AND HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS Attitudes versus actions Attitudes The sociological significance of measurable attitudes A consideration of beliefs, and their role in attitude measurement Attitude measurement: a cognitive perspective A simple theory of the survey response: Answering questions versus revealing preferences Measuring social distances Attitudes can be measured A technique for measurement of attitudes A comparison of the Thurstone and Likert techniques of attitude scale construction A basis for scaling qualitative data A technique for the construction of attitude scales Attitude Measurement A technique and a model for multi-dimensional attitude scaling Latent structure analysis Convergent and discriminant validation by the multitrait-multimethod matrix Reliability and validity assessment in attitude measurement ER -