Symbolic rating scale

A symbolic rating scale is a special form of a rating scale. It uses scale marks in the form of symbols , such as smileys, and thus distinguishes itself from the visual analogue scale (VAS) and numerical rating scale (NRS).

Purpose in empirical social research

See also : Empirical social research

Find symbolic rating scales a. Use where test subjects in a test or survey procedure do not seem able to provide the abstraction necessary for numerical rating scales to convert their own opinions into a numerical relative. This is especially true of young children . Another reason for using symbolic rating scales could be that the target group cannot read ( illiterate people ). It makes the evaluation easier if the scaling in question meets the " interval scale " level , for which the symbols must be set up equidistantly.

Individual proof

1. ^ Jürgen Bortz , Nicola Döring: Research methods and evaluation: for human and social scientists . 4th, revised. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 978-3-540-33305-0 , pp. 177 .