A response format in which the respondent is asked to rate something by marking a point on a line. These are often horizontal 10 cm long lines. The scoring from a paper form is simply the distance along the line. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
An article from 1969, Zealley, A. K., & Aitken, R. C. B. (1969). Measurement of mood. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine<\/em>, 62<\/em>(10), 993\u2013996. Available at: https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC1810824\/<\/a> throws a lovely historical light on the use of a VAS to rate mood (there depression) and on how things have changed in the last 50 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The simplest VAS tends just to have anchor words (e.g. “fine” and “terrible”) at each end of an otherwise unembroidered line but other versions have numbered marks, typically 0 to 10 while others have words against points on the line between the extremes. Others use emoticons instead of words. We recommend searching for examples: here’s an example search<\/a>. As ever, our advice is not to be excited by these (some are lovely) and design your own scale (as we say in Chapter 3: “Shall I just invent my own measure? Stop! Don\u2019t do it! Don\u2019t jump!”)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chapter 3 and, a bit, Chapter 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A response format in which the respondent is asked to rate something by marking a point on a line. These are often horizontal 10 cm long lines. The scoring from a paper form is simply the distance along the line. Details An article from 1969, Zealley, A. K., & Aitken, R. C. B. (1969). Measurement … Continue reading Visual analogue scale (VAS)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[18],"glossaries":[],"doc_tag":[],"knowledge_base":[],"class_list":["post-2097","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-om-book"],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":200,"total_views":"1537","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"chris","author_nicename":"chris","author_url":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/author\/chris\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"All OM book glossary entries","term_url":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary\/non-knowledgebase\/om-book\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2098,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2097\/revisions\/2098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"knowledge_base","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_base?post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Chapters<\/h4>\n\n\n\n