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Handbook of Marketing Scales
Multi-Item Measures for Marketing and Consumer Behavior Research

Third Edition
Edited by:


December 2010 | 624 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

The Handbook of Marketing Scales, Third Edition, represents a clear and user-friendly collection of multi-item, self-report measures developed and frequently used in consumer behavior and marketing research.

Key Features

  • More than 150 scales are included in the Handbook. Many scales were originally published in marketing and consumer journals, and including them in one volume helps reduce the time it takes researchers to locate instruments for survey research.
  • More than 70 new scales have been added to the Third Edition. New scales were selected based upon actual usage and citations by researchers in articles where a major objective was scale development.
  • Each scale is prefaced by the same information. Details are provided of construct, description, development, samples, validity, scores, sources, references, and other evidence.
  • The book includes a number of measures that have been used in several studies. The volume serves as a guide to the literature and may spur further refinement of existing measures in terms of item reduction, dimensionality, reliability, and validity.

This Handbook also aims to help identify areas where measures are needed, thus encouraging further development of valid measures of consumer behavior and marketing constructs.


 
 
Preface
 
1. Introduction
Criteria for Scale Deletions/Additions

 
Search Procedures

 
Format of the Book and Presentation of Measures

 
Caveats and Cautions

 
Evaluation of Measures

 
Reliability

 
Construct Validity

 
Other Issues to Consider

 
Summary

 
References

 
 
2. Traits and Individual Difference Variables
Scales Related to Interpersonal Orientation, Needs/Preferences, and Self-Concept

 
Scales Related to Consumer Compulsiveness and Impulsiveness

 
Scales Related to Country Image and Affiliation

 
Scales Related to Consumer Opinion Leadership and Opinion Seeking

 
Scales Related to Innovativeness

 
Scales Related to Consumer Social Influence

 
 
3. Values and Goals
General Values

 
Appendix to General Values

 
Values Related to Environmentalism and Socially Responsible Consumption

 
Values Related to Materialism and Possessions/Objects

 
Appendix to Materialism and Possessions/Objects

 
Values Related to Goal Orientations and Planning

 
 
4. Involvement, Information Processing, and Affect
Involvement General to Several Product Classes

 
Purchasing Involvement

 
Scales Related to Information Processing: Optimal Stimulation Measures

 
Scales Related to Processing Style

 
Scales Related to Affect

 
 
5. Reactions to Marketing Stimuli
Measures Related to Ad Emotions and Ad Content

 
Measures Related to Brand/Product Responses and Shopping Styles

 
Measures Related to Pricing Responses

 
 
6. Attitudes About the Performance of Business Firms, Satisfaction and Post-Purchase Behavior, Social Agencies, and the Marketplace
Consumer Attitudes Toward Business Practices and Marketing

 
Scales Related to Post- Purchase Behavior: Consumer Discontent

 
Business Attitudes Toward the Marketplace

 
 
7. Sales, Sales Management, Organizational Behavior, and Interfirm-Intrafirm Issues
Job Satisfaction Measures

 
Role Perceptions/Conflict

 
Job Burnout/Tension

 
Performance Measures

 
Control and Leadership

 
Organizational Commitment

 
Sales/Selling Approaches

 
Inter-/Intrafirm Issues of Influence and Power

 
Other Measures Related to Interfirm Issues

 
Index

 
 
About the Editors

This is a handbook of scales that are used in empirical marketing and consumer behaviour research. In seven chapters, this third edition mirrors the six major areas of marketing mix and consumer behaviour variables as well as a general introduction. The six areas are: (1) traits and individual difference variables; (2) values and goals; (3) involvement, information processing, and affect; (4) reactions to marketing stimuli; (5) attitudes about the performance of business firms, satisfaction and post-purchase behaviour, social agencies, and the mar- ketplace; and (6) sales, sales management, organizational behaviour, and interfirm–intrafirm issues. For each scale, the following information is provided: construct, description, and development of the scale, the samples used in development, validity, scores, source, and references and last but not least, the actual scale items and dimensions to which they belong.

Prof. Dr. Lucia A. Reisch
Book Review Editor, Journal of Consumer Policy

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