Study on evaluatingª²diversity of two kinds of fiveª²rating qualifiers

    LI Yaª²Hong,HU Wenª²Dong£¬WEN Zhiª²Hong

    Institute of Military Medical Psychology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi¬ðan 710033£¬China

    ¡¾Abstract¡¿ AIM: To discuss the distributing role of evaluatingª²diversity of fiveª²rating qualifiers and to assess its use in the evaluation for psychological measurement error.METHODS: One hundred and sixtyª²five soldiers were requested to designate values for two groups of fiveª²rating qualifiers,most of whom were senior or junior high school graduates.The distributing characteristics of the evaluatingª²diversity were analyzed.The difference of the evaluatingª²diversity of each qualifier in each of the two groups and the difference between the senior or junior high school graduates were assessed.RESULTS: The evaluatingª²diversities between the two groups assumed positive skew distribution.There was no significant difference between the two groups.The evaluatingª²diversities between the words in each group had significant difference.There was no significant difference between those designated by senior school group and junior school group.CONCLUSION: The evaluatingª²diversities of qualifiers assume positive skew distribution.The evaluatingª²diversities between qualifiers have certain consistency.There is significant difference between evaluatingª²diversity intervals in words.Educational level has no obvious effects on evaluatingª²diversity interval. ......