Individual Differences in Situation Awareness: Validation of the Situationism Scale

Roberts, Megan E.; Gibbons, Frederick X.; Gerrard, Meg; Klein, William M. P.

doi:10.1080/00224545.2014.977762

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“…The second type of behaviour, situation-control, refers to manipulating the environment in order to avoid temptation. Roberts et al (2015) found that individual differences in situationism and its subscales could predict greater situation-control. For instance, when individuals were asked not to snack from bowls of junk food, those self-regulators with higher scores on the Attention to the Situation subscale sat farther away from the food (with distancing oneself from tempting food being a type of situation-control strategy).…”

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“…The Situationism Scale (Roberts, Gibbons, Gerrard, & Klein, 2015) was developed to assess individual differences in beliefs about the strength of the relation between the environment and one's own behaviour. Scale validation with US samples supported the psychometric soundness of this Situationism Scale, and the distribution of scores supported the notion that situationism can vary within cultures.…”

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“…To evaluate the Situationism Scale's validity and predictive utility, Roberts et al (2015) tested whether situationism was associated with certain types of self-regulatory behaviour. Self-regulation concerns the exertion of control over oneself, for the purpose of inhibiting the way one would otherwise think, feel or behave (Baumeister & Heatherton, 1996).…”

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“…In addition, the English version of the survey was completed by an international pool of European young adults (to assess the scale's psychometric properties in a sample of mainly non-native English speakers). In order to facilitate comparison with findings from Roberts et al (2015), we replicated their focus on the self-regulatory domains of unhealthy eating and heavy alcohol use, as well as their focus on adolescent and young adult samples.…”

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“…The Situationism Scale was the same used by Roberts et al (2015;described above). Participants responded to the 13 items on a 1-7 Likert-type scale (1 = strongly disagree, 7 = strongly agree).…”

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Testing the Situationism Scale in Europe: Scale validation, self‐regulation and regional differences

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The term situationism refers to an individual's belief about the importance of a behaviour's context. This study tested whether the degree of situationism expressed by individuals in various regions of Europe was consistent with self-regulation and cross-cultural theories. The English version of a Situationism Scale (measuring beliefs about the relation between the environment and one's own behaviour) was translated into five additional languages: Dutch, German, Hungarian, Italian and Slovenian. Young adults (N = 1106, M = 22.9 years, 79% female) across Europe responded to one of the six language versions of the scale as part of a larger survey. Results indicated that: new language versions were psychometrically valid; there was a positive relation between situationism and the use of situation-control strategies; and situationism was higher for individuals from regions that are Eastern European and relatively more interdependent, compared with individuals from regions that are Western European and relatively less interdependent. As the first evaluation of the Situationism Scale outside America, this study supports the Scale's validity and suggests not only may some effects of situationism be universal, but between- and within-culture differences in situationism exist. Overall, when making judgments and decisions about the self, cultural background and individual differences in situationism may come into play.

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Examination of the validity and reliability of the French version of the Brief Self-Control Scale.

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Verbanck

et al. 2017

Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue canadienne des

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This study aims to develop and to validate a French version of the Brief Self-Control Scale (BSCS; Tangney et al., 2004). This instrument is usually applied as a unidimensional self-report measure for assessing trait self-control, which captures one’s dispositional ability to resist short-term temptation in order to reach more valuable long-term goals. Data were collected from two independent samples of French-speaking individuals (n1 = 287; n2 = 160). Results indicated that the French version of the BSCS can be treated as unidimensional, like the original questionnaire. Data also showed consistent acceptable reliability and reasonable test-retest stability. Acceptable external validity of constructs was supported by relationships with self-reported measures of impulsivity (UPPS), including urgency, lack of premeditation, and lack of perseverance. Overall, the findings suggest that the average score of the French version of the BSCS is a viable option for assessing trait self-control in French speaking populations.

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Self-changes: Situational determinants

Grishina¹

2022

Vestnik SPbSU. Psychology

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One of the trends in modern psychology is the study of self-processes as a result of recognizing the role of the individual in the process of development and creation of his own living space, including self-changes as a response to the challenges of a changing reality. According to the results of modern research, the readiness and ability of a person to change plays a crucial role in its effective functioning. Based on our research, a conceptual model of the process of self-change was proposed, the concept of the potential for self-change was developed, and a methodology for its diagnosis was proposed. The actualization of the potential for self-change is determined by the target and situational determinants, which require studying how the possibilities of the situation are assessed in terms of its correlation with the goals of a person. To identify a person’s desire for change, various methodological solutions are used that, however, are criticized for the decontextualized nature of the data obtained. Attempts to overcome this compel researchers to search for tools for describing situations and context. The article provides examples of studies conducted using the scale of situationism (lay situationism), which revealed two significant aspects — the susceptibility (sensitivity) of a person to environmental influences and attention to the situation; research focused on the study of personality changes, taking into account the context (WAC — Within and Across Context Variability); when describing a situation, it is proposed to be based on information about the structure of the situation, its psychological characteristics and the category (class) of the situation, the formulation of the principles for studying situations (processing, reality and circularity principles) is proposed. Studies of situations with a description/measurement of its individual parameters, however, can be effective in solving particular problems, but do not provide complete information about the situation as a regulator of human activity, since a person interacts with the whole situation, and not with its individual characteristics. The task is to search for concepts of an integral description of the situation as the basis for the target determination of behavior, one of which is Bernstein’s “model of the required future”.

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Individual Differences in Situation Awareness: Validation of the Situationism Scale

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Testing the Situationism Scale in Europe: Scale validation, self‐regulation and regional differences

Testing the Situationism Scale in Europe: Scale validation, self‐regulation and regional differences

Examination of the validity and reliability of the French version of the Brief Self-Control Scale.

Self-changes: Situational determinants

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