The surname Scales has at least two origins:

Self-Assembly at All Scales
Manual for the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales (DASS)
The Revised Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS2) Development and Preliminary Psychometric Data
Measuring dyadic adjustment: New scales for assessing the quality of marriage and similar dyads.
Measuring Intrafamily Conflict and Violence: The Conflict Tactics (CT) Scales
A 12-Item Short-Form Health Survey: construction of scales and preliminary tests of reliability and validity.
Comparison of Rasch and summated rating scales constructed from SF-36 physical functioning items in seven countries: results from th...
Comparison of Rasch and summated rating scales constructed from SF-36 physical functioning items in seven countries: results from th...
The validity and relative precision of MOS short- and long-form health status scales and Dartmouth COOP charts. Results from the Med...
Watson D, Clark LA, Tellegen A. Development and Validation of Brief Measures of Positive and Negative Affect - the Panas Scales. J P...