The convergent validity of acquiescence: an empirical study relating balanced scales and separate acquiescence scales

Ferrando, Pere J.; Condon, Lorena; Chico, Eliseo

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2004.01.003

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“…For one thing, the present results demonstrate that acquiescence is consistent within domains. In line with previous research (Billiet & McClendon, 2000;Ferrando et al, 2004;Hinz et al, 2007) our findings indicate a high latent correlation (r = .71) between the attitude acquiescence variables and thus demonstrates that acquiescence is a response style that is not specific to certain items or scales. Furthermore, the present results suggest that acquiescence is also strongly consistent across domains.…”

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“…For example, Billiet and McClendon (2000) analyzed data from 986 respondents and reported a latent correlation of r = .44 between acquiescence in two attitude scales. Likewise, Ferrando et al (2004) assessed 207 students and reported positive correlations (r = .14 to r = .54) between several personality acquiescence scales, and Hinz, Michalski, Schwarz, and Herzberg (2007) analyzed data from 2037 respondents and reported positive correlations (r = .15 to r = .40) between several personality acquiescence indicators. However, there have been only a few studies investigating the generalizability of acquiescence across domains.…”

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“…Such unwanted response tendencies can bias the results of surveys and questionnaires, especially when participants differ in their tendency for the corresponding response style. One of the most common response styles is acquiescence, defined as agreeing with an item or question regardless of the content (e.g., Cronbach, 1942;Ferrando, Condon, & Chico, 2004;Paulhus, 1991). Evidence for the distorting effect of acquiescence has been widely demonstrated.…”

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“…This is particularly important because it has been suggested to use control scales for identifying acquiescent responding (e.g., Amelang & Borkenau, 1981;Paulhus, 1991;Rorer & Goldberg, 1965). Control scales consist of heterogeneous items (e.g., Amelang & Borkenau, 1981;Handel, Ben-Porath, Tellegen, & Archer, 2010;Weijters, Geuens, & Schillewaert, 2010) or semantically balanced scales (e.g., Billiet & McClendon, 2000;Ferrando et al, 2004;Rammstedt et al, 2010). Balanced scales contain an equal amount of positively poled items (e.g., ''I see myself as someone who is sociable, outgoing'') and negatively poled items (e.g., ''I see myself as someone who is reserved'').…”

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“…A better procedure is to compare the correlation coefficients that have been corrected for unreliability: i.e. the disattenuated correlations (e.g., Ferrando, Condon, & Chico, 2004). In order to make a better comparison between the correlation coefficients obtained by relating DI and AQ scales, we used the internal consistencies reported by Chico et al (2003) for DII and Morales et al (2005) for the AQ to compute the disattenuated correlation coefficients.…”

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The Relationships between Functional and Dysfunctional Impulsivity and Aggression across Different Samples

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E. S. Barratt proposed the term impulsive aggression to define a kind of aggression that is characterized by acting without thinking because of high levels of impulsivity. Previous research using psychometric measures has shown that impulsivity and aggression are related as far as psychometric measures are concerned. Nevertheless, most of the research has been done with samples of university students. Our research tests whether this relationship is stable across different samples; university students, teenagers and workers. Our results show that impulsivity and aggression have a consistent pattern of relationships across these samples, with impulsivity being specially related to emotional and instrumental aspects of aggression. Furthermore, the effects of anger on aggression seem to show a pattern of relationship that depends on age, with a tendency to physical aggression in young people and verbal aggression in adults. Keywords: impulsivity, impulsive aggression, anger E. S. Barratt ha propuesto el término agresión impulsiva para definir un tipo de agresión que se caracteriza por actuar sin pensar debido a altos niveles de impulsividad. Investigaciones anteriores con medidas psicométricas han mostrado que impulsividad y agresión están relacionadas en lo que a las medidas psicométricas se refiere. Sin embargo, la mayoría de las investigaciones han empleado muestras de estudiantes universitarios. Nuestro trabajo trata de comprobar si esta relación se mantiene en muestras diferentes. Nuestros resultados indican que impulsividad y agresión muestran una pauta de relación consistente across these samples, estando la impulsividad especialmente relacionada con los aspectos emocionales e instrumentales de la agresión. Además, los efectos de la ira sobre la agresión muestran al parecer una pauta de relación dependiente de la edad, encontrándose una tendencia a la agresión física en gente joven y la agresión verbal en adultos. Palabras clave: impulsividad, agresión impulsiva, ira

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When Happiness is Both Joy and Purpose: The Complexity of the Pursuit of Happiness and Well-Being is Related to Actual Well-Being

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People differ in how they define and pursue happiness and well-being (HWB). Previous studies suggested that the best way to achieve a high level of well-being might be to pursue different facets of HWB simultaneously. We expand on this idea and introduce the concept of complexity of HWB definitions to describe how many HWB definitions people endorse simultaneously, and the complexity of HWB-related intentions to describe how many unique facets of HWB people intend to pursue in everyday life. To operationalize these novel concepts, we developed two parallel measures that integrate psychological and philosophical definitions of HWB. In two independent studies (total N = 542), exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses revealed eight reliable and valid factors for both parallel scales: absence of negativity, positive attitude, tranquility, personal development, luck, joy and desires, purpose, and belonging. Complexity of HWB-related intentions was positively associated with all facets of well-being, whereas complexity of HWB definitions was only positively associated with some facets of well-being. HWB-related intentions and their complexity emerged as more important for the experience of well-being than HWB definitions and their complexity. These studies highlight the importance of a multifaceted conceptualization of HWB when investigating how the pursuit of HWB is related to actual levels of well-being.

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The convergent validity of acquiescence: an empirical study relating balanced scales and separate acquiescence scales

Cited by 30 publications

References 18 publications

Acquiescence in personality questionnaires: Relevance, domain specificity, and stability

Acquiescence in personality questionnaires: Relevance, domain specificity, and stability

The Relationships between Functional and Dysfunctional Impulsivity and Aggression across Different Samples

When Happiness is Both Joy and Purpose: The Complexity of the Pursuit of Happiness and Well-Being is Related to Actual Well-Being

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