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Reliability Beyond Theory and Into Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Klaas Sijtsma
Klaas Sijtsma*
Affiliation:
Tilburg University
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Requests for reprints should be sent to Klaas Sijtsma, Department of Methodology and Statistics, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tilburg University, PO Box 90153, 5000LE, Tilburg, The Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

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The critical reactions of Bentler (2009, doi:10.1007/s11336-008-9100-1), Green and Yang (2009a, doi:10.1007/s11336-008-9098-4; 2009b, doi:10.1007/s11336-008-9099-3), and Revelle and Zinbarg (2009, doi:10.1007/s11336-008-9102-z) to Sijtsma’s (2009, doi:10.1007/s11336-008-9101-0) paper on Cronbach’s alpha are addressed. The dissemination of psychometric knowledge among substantive researchers is discussed.

Keywords

common factor reliabilityCronbach’s alphastructural equation modeling of reliability
Type
Theory and Methods
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 74 , Issue 1 , March 2009 , pp. 169 - 173
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