Introduction to Facet Theory

Elizur, Dov; Hoffman, Michael; Shye, Samuel

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“…Here, we used Faceted Smallest Space Analysis (FSSA), a program developed by Shye (1992;Shye, Elizur, & Hoffman, 1994) that first maps the items, then mathematically partitions each conceptual map according to the predefined facets. The program also provides a separation index ranging from 0-1 to assess how well each facet scheme fits the data.…”

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Bridging the spheres: political and personal conversation in public and private spaces

Wyatt

2000

Journal of Communication

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For some theorists, talk about politics is infrequent, difficult, divisive, and, to be efficacious, must proceed according to special rules in protected spaces. We, however, examined ordinary political conversation in common spaces, asking Americans how freely and how often they talked about 9 political and personal topics at home, work, civic organizations, and elsewhere. Respondents felt free to talk about all topics. Most topics were talked about most frequently at home and at work, suggesting that the electronic cottage is wired to the public sphere. Political conversation in most loci correlated significantly with opinion quality and political participation, indicating that such conversation is a vital component of actual democratic practice, despite the emphasis given to argumentation and formal deliberation by some normative theorists. Given the dictum, "Two things I never talk about in public are politics and religion," the troublesome fall in news consumption, a continuing slippage in voter turnout, and the controversy swirling around citizens' distrust of government and the decline of America's "social capital" (Putnam, 1995a(Putnam, , 1995b, 1 there is little wonder that questions abound about how little, how reluctantly, and where, if at all, Americans talk about politics. This debate proceeds, incidentally, despite empirical evidence that civic participation is alive and well Disciplines Communication | Social and Behavioral Sciences

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Bridging the spheres: political and personal conversation in public and private spaces

Wyatt

2000

Journal of Communication

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“…The higher the correlation or the more similar between two variables, the distance between them are shorter in this space [13]. SSA can provide two informal indicators to judge the quality of the configuration [14]: The first one is the coefficient of alienation, which reflects how the proposed dimension solution fits for the data (values of this index range from 0 (best) to 1 (worst). Another is the separation index, which is aim to examine the fit between the spatial solution constructed in the confirmatory SSA fits for the hypothesis.…”

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“…Another is the separation index, which is aim to examine the fit between the spatial solution constructed in the confirmatory SSA fits for the hypothesis. It has a range from 0 to 1 also, while value one means model fits the hypothesis perfectly [14].…”

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The Environmental Worldviews and Climate Change Mitigation Behaviors: Testing the New Ecological Scale in the Smallest Space Analysis for Chinese Samples

Xue¹,

Zhao²

2015

IJESD

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“…The location of each item is determined by assessing the similarity or dissimilarity to all of the other items. SSA can produce two indicators to evaluate the configuration quality [12]: the coefficient of alienation and the separation index, which reflects how it fit between the spatial configuration and the data (values of this index range from 0 (best) to 1 (worst), while the separation index examines the fit between the spatial solution found in the confirmatory SSA and the a priori spatial hypothesis derived from the mapping sentence, which ranges from 0 (worst) to 1 (best) [12].…”

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Development and Validation of a Chinese Translation of Gambling Expectance Scale through Smallest Space Analysis

Xue¹,

Zeng²,

Liu³

2018

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2018)

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Abstract-A sample of 312 individuals (residents and tourists) in Macao was investigated by completing a survey assessing their gambling expectancy and the gambling intention. The Smallest Space Analysis (SSA) was adopted as the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to validate the Chinese version of gambling expectancy scale's sub-dimensions generated by the exploratory factor analysis (EFA). 10 items to judge people's gambling intention were adopted as validate variables to investigate their associations with the gambling expectancy. In the configuration produced by the Gambling Expectancy Questionnaire (GEQ), results indicated that the 3-dimension solution of the scale was valid for the Chinese sample. The SSA results revealed that all the gambling intention variables were located in the same region between potential gains and self or parents' evaluation, indicating that people believe gambling could bring the potential gains and higher self/evaluation were more likely to commit gambling. Compared with the gamblers, non-gamblers scored higher on punishment dimension, but lower than potential gain dimension. Chinese gamblers were found gambling for reach better social status, which in line with Chinese cultural background.

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Introduction to Facet Theory

Cited by 227 publications

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Bridging the spheres: political and personal conversation in public and private spaces

Bridging the spheres: political and personal conversation in public and private spaces

The Environmental Worldviews and Climate Change Mitigation Behaviors: Testing the New Ecological Scale in the Smallest Space Analysis for Chinese Samples

Development and Validation of a Chinese Translation of Gambling Expectance Scale through Smallest Space Analysis

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