A one-minute measure of the Big Five? Evaluating and abridging Shafer's (1999a) Big Five markers

Langford, Peter

doi:10.1016/s0191-8869(02)00323-9

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“…The level of stress was also measured with a single item: "the level of stress you experience in your job" on a Likert scale from 0 (none) to 10 (very high). Previous research has also used this type of scale to measure levels of job stress (e.g., Langford, 2003) and can therefore be considered as a valid measurement. According to these prior studies we could use this single question item to reflect the meaning of job stress.…”

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Interpersonal trust, stress and satisfaction at work: an empirical study

2014

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STRUCTURED ABSTRACTPurpose. Due to the divergent conclusions about the effects of interpersonal trust on job satisfaction, the study aims to look more deeply into this relationship by introducing job stress as a mediator variable. Findings. Our findings show that interpersonal trust has a positive effect on job satisfaction, and that job stress partially mediates this relationship. Furthermore, interpersonal trust is negatively related to job stress, which in turn is negatively related to job satisfaction.Research limitations/implications. Despite the pertinence and size of the database used in the study, it is very heterogeneous. Future research might delimit the database by organization size or sector. Qualitative studies may also improve our understanding of the relationships studied and enable other concepts to be included. 2Practical implications. Cultivating a climate of trust may provide organizations with a strategy to improve levels of mental well-being and satisfaction among their employees.Originality/value. This research explains why interpersonal trust has a positive effect on job satisfaction. Our conceptualization of trust implies risk assumption and low risk perception; low perception of risk is presumed to reduce job stress, and in turn, increase job satisfaction. We also put forward reasons for why 'excessive' interpersonal trust has been related to negative effects on job satisfaction. 'Excessive' trust might infer high risk perception, which might increase job stress, and in turn decrease job satisfaction.

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Interpersonal trust, stress and satisfaction at work: an empirical study

2014

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“…Table 1 in Rammstedt and Beierlein (2014) provides a more extensive list. Most prominently, the Big-Five dimensions of personality are now frequently measured using very short scales with four or two items or even one item per dimension (e.g., Donnellan, Oswald, Baird, & Lucas, 2006;Langford, 2003;Rammstedt & John, 2007).Although the reliabilities of these short scales have tended to be lower than the longer original scales, they have invariably remained satisfactory for research purposes . More importantly, these 54 and .66 (e.g., Feldman & Stenner, 1997;Henry, 2011;Hetherington & Suhay, 2011;Pérez & Hetherington, 2014), but still rarely reaching what would conventionally be regarded as a reasonably acceptable alpha of .70 (Schmitt, 1996).…”

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Investigating right wing authoritarianism with a very short authoritarianism scale

Bizumić

Duckitt

2018

J. Soc. Polit. Psych.

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Authoritarianism has been an important explanatory concept for more than 60 years and a powerful predictor of social, political, and intergroup attitudes and behaviour. An important impediment to research on authoritarianism has been the length of the measures available, particularly with the contemporary emphasis on the need for social research to use larger, more representative samples and measure multiple constructs across multiple domains. We therefore developed a six-item Very Short Authoritarianism (VSA) scale that equally represented the three content subdimensions and two directions of wording of Altemeyer's widely used Right Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) scale. Over four samples (N = 1,601) from three countries the VSA scale showed satisfactory internal consistency and the expected hierarchical factor structure with three primary factors loading on a single higher-order factor. Additionally, the scale predicted variables such as nationalism, ethnocentrism, political orientation, political party/candidate support, attitudes towards ingroups or outgroups and anti-minority bias at moderate to strong levels with effects very close to those obtained for much longer established measures of RWA (including Altemeyer's scale). The VSA scale also showed clearly better reliability and validity than a short measure of authoritarian parental values that has been used to measure authoritarianism.Keywords: authoritarianism, ideology, prejudice, attitudes, scale development, cross-national research Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2018, Vol. 6(1), 129-150, doi:10.5964/jspp.v6i1.835 Received: 2017-08-10. Accepted: 2018-03-07. Published (VoR): 2018-04-25.Handling Editor: Winnifred R. Louis, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia *Corresponding author at: Research School of Psychology, the Australian National University, Building 39 Science Road, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. E-mail: Boris. Bizumic@anu.edu.au This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.For more than six decades the construct of authoritarianism has been an important explanatory construct for social and personality psychologists studying socio-political and intergroup behaviour. Authoritarianism was first psychometrically operationalized by Adorno, Frenkel-Brunswik, Levinson, and Sanford (1950), but their F scale proved to be psychometrically flawed. As a result, it was refined and improved by Altemeyer (1981) as the Right Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) scale, which since then has remained the measure of choice for researchers. An important observation of Altemeyer's (1981) was that the items of his RWA scale encompassed three distinct content areas, that is, Authoritarian Submission, Authoritarian Aggression, and Conventionalism (see also, Mavor, Louis, & Sibley, 2010). Because he viewed these three fa...

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“…Recently, Tluczek, Henriques, and Brown (2009) have stated that, although the STAI is a useful instrument, the fast-paced health care environment often precludes patients from completing the full scale, especially when the instrument is combined with other assessments. Therefore, researchers have to take patients' fatiguability and attention span into account (Langford, 2003;Saucier, 1994).…”

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