Mr. Wright is reviewing a measure of relationship satisfaction and realized that if he wants higher scores to represent higher relationship satisfaction then he needs to reverse code the items before he ______ to determine the overall score for an individual participant.
A) calculates the mean
B) sums the items
C) determines the variability
D) calculates the standard deviation

Question

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Reversing the coding of items means that some items that were originally scored in the opposite direction now need to be scored in the same direction as the rest of the items. Therefore, before calculating the overall score, Mr. Wright needs to sum the items.

Mr Wright Is Reviewing a Measure of Relationship Satisfaction and Realized