The optimal choice of semantic scales sociometry

Abstract

The optimal choice of semantic scales sociometry

Mochtchenko I.N., Bugayan I.F., Moschenko O.A.

Incoming article date: 25.06.2017

The paper presents the results of a comparative analysis of estimates of the levels of emotional perception, is satisfied in full and shortened semantic scales. The studies were performed on specific experimental data obtained in the measurement of deprivation attitudes of students Academy of architecture and construction DSTU at the end of 2016. It is found that the decrease in the number of signs in the semantic scale to the optimum leads to small changes in the assessments of emotional perception. At the individual level the changes are mostly (70%) not more than 10%,and in the whole group even less.

Keywords: relative deprivation, semantic space, factor analysis, rating scale, experimental regularity, factorization of scales, psychophysiological nature of the law of factorization, the optimal set