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Estimating the Reliability of a Single-Item Measure
Abstract
Single-item measures of employees' attitudes and beliefs are generally discouraged because their (internal consistency) reliability cannot be estimated. This results in the concern that reliability may be unacceptably low, particularly when compared to scales used to measure the same construct. A method for estimating the reliability of a single-item measure is demonstrated on original data that included both a single-item and a multiple-item measure of three constructs, namely, Over-all Job Satisfaction, Perceived Amount of Participation, and Desired Amount of Participation in decision-making. The average minimum estimated reliability for these single-item measures is .57; however, a realistic yet conservative estimate of their likely minimum reliability is at least .70.
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“The use of single-item measures is another possible limitation, comprising several outcome measures collected by the app. There is a concern that the reliability of single-item measures may be objectionably low [34].”
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“Use of single- versus multiitem measures for affect assessment was considered a potential moderator because singleitem assessments are less reliable than multiple-item measures (Wanous & Reichers, 1996).”
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- Authors
- Wanous, J. P., & Reichers, A. E.
- Affiliations
- The Ohio Slate University
- Venue
- Psychological Reports
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1996-04
- Volume
- 78
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 631-634
- ISSN
- 0033-2941 (ISSN-L)
- 1558-691X
- OpenAlex
- W1979597058
- Cited by
- 380
- References
- 7
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- FWCI
- 6.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychological Reports (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › Reliability and Agreement in Measurement
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Keywords
- single-item measures, reliability estimation, internal consistency, employee attitudes, job satisfaction, employee participation, decision-making participation, construct measurement
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