{"id":131,"date":"2026-07-19T16:22:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T20:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/3plab\/?p=131"},"modified":"2026-08-11T16:46:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T20:46:56","slug":"its-time-to-test-the-likert-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/3plab\/2026\/07\/19\/its-time-to-test-the-likert-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s time to test the Likert scale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>University at Buffalo psychologist&#8217;s research suggest that a response format should be given as much thought as the test itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The number of options does matter, especially for measures of personality constructs like those we assessed in our study,&#8221; says Leonard Simms, an associate professor in the UB Department of Psychology and lead author of the new study published in the journal\u00a0<em>Psychological Assessment<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/639087\">Read more at EurekAlert<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University at Buffalo psychologist&#8217;s research suggest that a response format should be given as much thought as the test itself. &#8220;The number of options does matter, especially for measures of &#8230; <a title=\"It&#8217;s time to test the Likert scale\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/3plab\/2026\/07\/19\/its-time-to-test-the-likert-scale\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about It&#8217;s time to test the Likert scale\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":678,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/3plab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/3plab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/3plab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/3plab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/3plab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/3plab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/3plab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/3plab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/3plab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/3plab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}