A Reliability Analysis Was Run on Items from a Questionnaire

question 16

Multiple Choice

A reliability analysis was run on items from a questionnaire and gave rise to a Cronbach's alpha of α = -.8. What is the most likely explanation?

• A)There are too few items on the questionnaire.
• B)The questionnaire has 'inverse reliability'.
• C)There were reverse-phrased items on the questionnaire that were not reverse-scored before the analysis was done.
• D)The questionnaire is unreliable.

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