ERIC Number: EJ361903
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1987
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The Importance of Questionnaire Wording: Assessments of Weights as an Example.
Price, James H.; And Others
Health Education (Washington D.C.), v18 n4 p40-43 Aug-Sep 1987
This study examined how students' perceptions of silhouette drawings of various weights would change when descriptors of Likert-like endpoints describing heavy and thin weights were changed. Subjects were 211 college students who completed one of five forms of a questionnaire differing only in endpoint descriptors. Results are discussed. (MT)
Descriptors: Body Weight, Higher Education, Perception Tests, Questioning Techniques, Questionnaires, Semantics
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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