השוואת שיטות

	בניית סולם ליקרט	ניתוח גורמים לפיתוח סולמות
תחום	פסיכומטריה	פסיכומטריה
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	1932	1947
הוגה השיטה	Rensis Likert	Louis Thurstone
סוג	Summated rating scale methodology	Exploratory factor analysis methodology
מקור מכונן	Likert, R. (1932). A technique for the measurement of attitudes. Archives of Psychology, 22(140), 1-55.	Thurstone, L. L. (1947). Multiple-Factor Analysis: A Development and Expansion of the Vectors of Mind (2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 9780226797557
כינויים	Likert summated rating scale, Summated rating scale construction	Exploratory factor analysis, EFA for scale development, Factorial structure analysis
קשורות	5	5
תקציר	Likert scale construction is a systematic methodology for developing attitude measurement instruments using summated rating scales. Introduced by Rensis Likert in 1932, it enables researchers to quantify latent constructs such as attitudes, beliefs, and psychological states by aggregating responses across multiple items. The method remains foundational to quantitative social and health sciences research.	Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) is a statistical method for discovering the underlying dimensional structure of a set of items or variables. Pioneered by Louis Thurstone in the mid-20th century, EFA is widely used to develop and validate psychometric scales by identifying groups of items that correlate together, thereby revealing latent dimensions of the construct being measured. The method reduces item sets to a smaller number of interpretable factors.