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The word “rating scale” is used in at least two different ways. In the strict sense a “rating scale” is concerned with the measurement of different degrees of severity of a single item, such as “mildly, moderately, severely depressed”. However, a list of such single rating scales has also come to be called a “rating scale”, which is a somewhat improper use of the word. Usually the “measurement” coming out of such a list (of single rating scales) is a total score.
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Katschnig, H. (1985). Problems in the Use of Global Scores of Rating Scales in Psychiatric Research. In: Pichot, P., Berner, P., Wolf, R., Thau, K. (eds) Clinical Psychopathology Nomenclature and Classification. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-5049-9_38
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