NOTE: THERE ARE OTHER VERSIONS OF THIS SCALE. THIS IS NOT THE MOST UP-TO-DATE VERSION

Construct Summary

The authors define the construct of robot anxiety as follows:

“We define robot anxiety as the emotions of anxiety or fear preventing individuals from interaction with robots having functions of communication in daily life, in particular, communication in a human-robot dyad.” (p. 373)

Rating = 69%

Check?	Guideline Item
✓	Is the construct defined?
✓	Does the final version of the items capture the construct as it has been defined by the authors?
✖	Is the item generation process discussed (e.g., literature review, Delphi method, crowd-sourcing)?
✖	Person to items 10:1 for the initial set of items?
✓	Did they perform an EFA, PCA, Rasch, or similar test to determine the item to factor relationship?
✓	Did they describe how they determined number of factors?
✖	Did they report the full initial set of items?
✓	Did they provide loadings (EFA) or item fits (Rasch) of all items?
✖	Is there a description of the item removal process (e.g., using infit/outfit, factor loading minimum value, or cross-loading values)?
✓	Did they list the final items included in the scale?
✓	Did they include a factor structure test (e.g., second EFA, CFA, DIF, test for unidimensionality when using Rasch, or similar)?
✓	Was a measure of reliability (e.g., Cronbach’s alpha, McDonalds Omega_h or Omega_t, Tarkkonen’s Rho) reported?
✓	Was a test of validity (e.g., predictive, concurrent, convergent, discriminant) reported?

Comments item development reported in 2003 paper

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PAPER
Nomura, T., Suzuki, T., Kanda, T., & Kato, K. (2006, September). Measurement of anxiety toward robots. In ROMAN 2006-The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (pp. 372-377). IEEE.

PDF of scale as well as instructions for administration and scoring are not readily available. Check the paper for more details or email hriscaledatabase@gmail.com to submit this information if you are the author of this scale.

Final Scale Items (11 total):

Anxiety toward communication capability of robots
Robots may talk about something irrelevant during conversation
Conversation with robots may be inflexible
Robots may be unable to understand complex stories

Anxiety toward behavioral characteristics of robots
how robots will act
what robots will do
what power robots will have
what speed robots will move at

Anxiety toward discourse with robots
How I should talk with robots
How I should reply to robots when they talk to me
Whether robots understand the contents of my utterance to them
I may be unable to udnerstand the contents of robots’ utterances to me