Likert-style surveys are a widely used research instrument to assess respondents' preferences, beliefs, or experiences. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate how network analysis (NA) can be employed model evaluate the interconnectedness of items in surveys. We explore advantages approach by applying methodology aspects student experience scale datasets compare results principal component a...

One of the controversial methodological topics in social and behavioral sciences is (ab)use Likert Scale items, Likert-type items ranked ordered response categories. The debate whether parametric tests can be legitimately conducted on technically ordinal categories that are represented with numbers. Participants answered survey questions moral disengagement, where we changed intervals seven tes...