The effect of the number of response categories on the Fit of emotional creativity scale to rating scale model on university students

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1 Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, Sohag University

2 Educational Psychology, Faculty of education, Assiut University

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The current study aimed to reveal the effect of the number of response categories on matching the emotional creativity scale to the grading scale model on university students, the study tool was the emotional creativity scale [Averill, 1999, and the researchers' translation], and the scale may be in its final form of (30) items. The scale was applied in its two forms (4 & 5 point scale) on a sample of (1237) male and female students at the Faculty of Education at Assiut and Sohag Universities, and the study reached the following results: The condition of one-dimensional and positional independence was achieved in the emotional creativity scale in its two forms (quadrilateral, and quintuple), the response categories to the components of the emotional creativity scale (preparation or preparation, novelty, effectiveness) in its two forms (quadrilateral, quintuple) achieved a good match to the scale of appreciation model, where it was All internal and external matching values fell within acceptable limits (between 0.50 to 1.50), the threshold values for the quadruple scale were in ascending order for all components of the emotional creativity scale, while the threshold values for the five-point scale were not in ascending order for all components of the emotional creativity scale. The results also showed that there were no statistically significant differences between the average values of the difficulty coefficients of the items of the emotional creativity scale in its quadruple and quintuple forms for components of the scale.
Keywords: response categories, Emotional creativity, Rating scale model.

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