using a semantic differential scale 280 third grade highschool students (male and female) were asked to express their attitudes towards themselves, parents, teachers, and their education. finding indicate possitive correlation between students attitude towards themselves and their education as well as between their attitude towards themselves and their parents.

Evidence is presented for the existence of two types of factors when semantic differential data are factor analyzed by treating each concept-scale combination as a variable: (1) factors defined by scales within given concepts and (2) factors defined by scales across concepts. These two types of factors were found for each of two independent data sets. The findings suggest changes in the procedu...

A confirmatory approach to the positioning method (Toyoda, 2001) that can be used for analyzing three-mode multivariate data measured by the semantic differential (SD) method is considered. Two examples of the confirmatory method are given to demonstrate the applicability of the model. The first is a method to test the difference of image, between an experimental group and a control group. The ...

Noun compounds, consisting of two nouns (the head and the modifier) that are combined into a single concept, differ in terms of their plausibility: school bus is a more plausible compound than saddle olive. The present study investigates which factors influence the plausibility of attested and novel noun compounds. Distributional Semantic Models (DSMs) are used to obtain formal (vector) represe...