Suvremena psihologija, Vol. 6 No. 1, 2003.
Prethodno priopćenje
The never-ending story: Effect of response format on the psychometric characteristics of the Proactivity Scale
Andrea Vranić
Predrad Zarevski
Maja Ružić
Sažetak
A sample of 252 subjects, aged between 30 and 45, from six Croatian towns participated in the study. The number of male and female participants was about equal (132 female and 120 male subjects). Two versions of the proactivity scale (scale PP), differing only in response format, were used in the study. The first version offered the possibility of answering “never”, “sometimes” and “always”. Version 2 consisted of binary answer possibility, meaning answering either “yes” or “no”. The aim of the study was to test the effect of response format on the psychometric characteristics of both versions of the scale. The results show that neither in male nor female subjects, is the distribution of the results significantly different than described by normal distribution. Descriptive statistics for both scale versions, as well as the corrected item-total correlations, are shown. The psychometric characteristic are somewhat in favour of the second version. Authors suggest future research in the direction of testing for correlation with other personality traits, intelligence, socio-demographic data and investigating the social desirability of the proactivity construct.
Ključne riječi
Poactivtiy; response format; proactivity scale
Hrčak ID:
3230
URI
Datum izdavanja:
30.6.2003.
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