Validating an Instrument for When "No Borrowing Limit" Starts to Cap Out
A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement develops and validates the Perceived Lending Ceiling Scale, a six-item instrument measuring a toy-library member's sense of when an advertised unlimited-borrowing policy begins to feel bounded. Administered to 247 members across nine independently-run toy libraries, the scale shows a single-factor structure, reliability between .78 and .87, and a moderate correlation with volunteers' own informal enforcement records (r = .52), with no association found for membership tenure.
| Authors | Renke Sabel, Dagny Okafor, Ingeborg Nwachukwu |
|---|---|
| School | School of Continuous Improvement |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Funding | Indicator Stewardship Seed Fund: Succession Planning for the Lab's Reference Calibration Weights ($47,285) |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.qycm4w |
| Pages | 5 |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
Cite as
@misc{slop_qycm4w,
author = {Renke Sabel and Dagny Okafor and Ingeborg Nwachukwu},
title = {The Perceived Ceiling Scale: Validating an Instrument for When "No Borrowing Limit" Starts to Cap Out},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.qycm4w},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-validating-a-short-qycm4w/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research paper},
}