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Personal Need for Structure als differenzialpsychologisches Konstrukt in der Sozialpsychologie

Published Online:March 05, 2015https://doi.org/10.1024/0044-3514.37.2.87

Abstract

Zusammenfassung: Eine reliable und valide deutschsprachige Version der Personal Need for Structure (PNS)-Skala wird vorgestellt. Hierzu wurde eine Übersetzung der englischsprachigen Originalskala erstellt, welche einer Skalenanalyse unterzogen sowie anhand persönlichkeits- und sozialpsychologischer Variablen validiert wurde. Studie 1 (N = 702), in der die psychometrische Qualität der deutschsprachigen Übersetzung überprüft wurde, zeigte, dass die deutsche PNS-Skala hinsichtlich Reliabilität und Faktorenstruktur mit der englischen Originalskala vergleichbar ist. Die Prüfung der konvergenten wie divergenten Validität der PNS-Skala anhand der Persönlichkeitsvariablen des Fünf-Faktoren Inventar (Big Five) und Need for Cognition sowie Konservatismus erfolgt in Studie 2 (N = 86). In Studie 3 (N = 66) wird die deutsche PNS-Skala im Inhaltsbereich der Intergruppenforschung an den Variablen Identifikation mit der Eigengruppe, “diversity beliefs”, Wahrnehmung der Homogenität von Eigen- und Fremdgruppe und Eigengruppenfavorisierung validiert.


Personal Need for Structure as a Construct of Dispositional Differences in Social Psychology: Psychometric Analysis and Validation of a German PNS Scale

Abstract: A reliable and valid German version of the Personal Need for Structure (PNS) scale is presented. A translation of the English PNS scale was created, subjected to a scale analysis, and validated with personality and social psychological variables. In Study 1 (N = 702) we analyzed the psychometric quality of the German translation of the PNS scale. The results indicate that the reliability and the factor structure of the German PNS scale are comparable to the English version. In Study 2 (N = 86), convergent and divergent validity of the PNS scale were tested on the basis of the Big Five personality variables, Need for Cognition and conservatism. In Study 3 (N = 66) we validated the PNS scale in the area of intergroup research with variables of identification with the ingroup, diversity beliefs, homogeneity of ingroup and outgroup perception and ingroup favouritism.

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