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cavalini: Coping Strategies

Description

Data came from 17 polytomous items administered to 828 respondents (Cavalini, 1992) asking them how they coped actively with the bad smell from a factory in the neighborhood of their homes.

Usage

data(cavalini)

format

A 828 by 17 matrix containing integers. dimnames(cavalini)[[2]] are adjectives

Details

Items have four ordered answer categories, never (score 0), seldom (1), often (2), and always (3). The 17 items constitute 4 scales (for detailed information, see Sijtsma and Molenaar, 2002, pp. 82-86). ll{ Item1 Keep windows closed Item2 No laundry outside Item3 Search source of malodor Item4 No blankets outside Item5 Try to find solutions Item6 Go elsewhere for fresh air Item7 Call environmental agency Item8 Think of something else Item9 File complaint with producer Item10 Acquiesce in odor annoyance Item11 Do something to get rid of it Item12 Say ``it might have been worse'' Item13 Experience unrest Item14 Talk to friends and family Item15 Seek diversion Item16 Avoid breathing through the nose Item17 Try to adapt to situation }

References

Cavalini, P. M. (1992). It's an ill wind that brings no good. Studies on odour annoyance and the dispersion of odorant concentrations from industries. Unpublished doctoral disseratation. University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Sijtsma, K. and Molenaar, I. W. (2002). Introduction to nonparametric item response theory, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

See Also

check.iio,

Examples

data(cavalini)