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The past several years have marked a considerable upsurge of interest in the conceptualization and measurement of in the social sciences, particularly in regard to measures that are formed as linear composites (weighted or unweighted sums) of individual items (Novick and Lewis, 1967; Bohrnstedt, 1969; Werts and Linn, 1970; Heise and Bohrnstedt, 1970; Armor, 1974; Smith, 1974a). One result of this interest has been a proliferation in the literature of a variety of reliability coefficients that measure
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