The Sense of Agency Scale: A Measure of Consciously Perceived Control over One's Mind, Body, and the Immediate Environment

Ťápal, Adam; Oren, Ela; Dar, Reuven; Eitam, Baruch

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01552

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“…Compared to a related scale, the Sense of Agency Scale, in which items tend to focus on one's behaviours and ownership of one's actions (Tapal et al, 2017), the SPA-5 has a greater focus on the service user's intrapersonal perceptions of their life. The fact that each item statement begins with 'I' highlights the subjective focus and nature of the scale.…”

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Development and psychometric properties of a new brief scale for subjective personal agency (SPA-5) in people with schizophrenia

Yamaguchi

Shiozawa

Matsunaga

et al. 2020

Epidemiol Psychiatr Sci

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Aims Personal agency is a variable which potentially facilitates personal recovery in people with serious mental illness. This study aimed to develop a new brief measure for subjective personal agency that can be completed by people with serious mental illness. Methods Two focus group interviews were first conducted with 11 people with schizophrenia to understand the fundamental components of subjective personal agency for people with serious mental illness living in the community. One group comprised six people with schizophrenia living in the community, while the other consisted of five people with schizophrenia working as peer-support workers. We then developed scale items through collaboration with people with schizophrenia and qualitative analysis (stage 1). A cross-sectional survey was then conducted to test the psychometric properties of the new scale among service users with schizophrenia in 18 assertive community treatment teams (stage 2). Factor validity was tested via exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). We evaluated convergent validity with the Boston University Empowerment Scale (BUES), divergent validity with the global assessment of functioning (GAF), internal consistency, and test–retest reliability. Results Seven items were included in the scale at stage 1. In stage 2, 195 participants completed this scale. EFA revealed a one-factor model with five items. CFA indicated good model fit (χ2 statistics [CMIN] = 8.445, df = 5 (CMIN/df = 1.689), p = 0.133, comparative fit index = 0.974, Tucker–Lewis fit index = 0.949, root mean square error of approximation = 0.077 and standardised root mean squared residual = 0.042). The new scale was significantly correlated with total BUES score (r = 0.526, p < 0.001), but not with GAF score. Cronbach's α for internal consistency was 0.79, and intra-class correlation coefficient for test–retest reliability was 0.70. Conclusion We developed a new, five-item Subjective Personal Agency scale (SPA-5) that can be completed by people with serious mental illness. Further studies are needed to confirm the results outside Japan.

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Development and psychometric properties of a new brief scale for subjective personal agency (SPA-5) in people with schizophrenia

Yamaguchi

Shiozawa

Matsunaga

et al. 2020

Epidemiol Psychiatr Sci

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“…It is possible that using the non-verbal scales associated with the PAD model would help circumventing this issue and allow further exploration of the links between the CDS and feelings of dominance (i.e., SAM, Bradley & Lang, 1994;Affect Button, Broekens, 2012). Another possibility would be to use more specific instruments, such as those constructed to assess sense of agency or sense of control (e.g., Tapal, Oren, Dar & Eitam, 2017).…”

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On the Characteristics of the Cognitive Dissonance State: Exploration Within the Pleasure Arousal Dominance Model

Bran¹,

Vaidis

2020

Psychologica Belgica

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Cognitive Dissonance Theory (Festinger, 1957) proposes that individuals experience psychological discomfort when they are confronted with inconsistent cognitions. This psychological discomfort is more generally considered to be a state of aversive arousal that can be referred as a cognitive dissonance state (CDS). For many scholars, the CDS is the core of the theory and its central process: this psychological discomfort mediates the consequences of the inconsistency exposure

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“…The sense of agency can be measured explicitly (e.g., Tapal, Oren, Dar & Eitam, 2017) by directly asking participants to report the extent to which they perceived control over the action. Most studies showing the influence of group on individuals' sense of agency used explicit self-report measures (Greenaway et al, 2015).…”

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Cultural group perception enhances sense of agency in a multicultural society

Zhao

et al. 2019

Scandinavian J Psychology

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Group, which involves collective actions for achieving shared goals, can be conceptually understood as an important source of agency and control. The current research investigated whether group identity salience can enhance sense of agency within the individual. Specifically, we examined whether an activated cultural group identity, through presenting different types of cultural photographs in a predictable way, would facilitate people's sense of agency by using an implicit method, namely, intentional binding effect paradigm. Experiment 1a found that an activated cultural group identity enhanced the sense of agency. Next, Experiment 1b replicated the findings by recruiting a different ethnic group in the same society. Experiment 2 explored what may affect the intensity of induced sense of agency and found that perceived representativeness of the presented cultural stimuli was positively correlated with the intensity of induced sense of agency. Finally, Experiment 3 explored whether ethnic minority and majority groups would demonstrate different intensity of agency when their cultural identity was activated. The results showed that the sense of agency induced by the mainstream cultural stimuli was greater than that induced by the foreign cultural photographs. These patterns were not different between the two ethnic groups. Taken together, these findings reflected the dynamic nature of cultural identity construction in a multicultural society.

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The Sense of Agency Scale: A Measure of Consciously Perceived Control over One's Mind, Body, and the Immediate Environment

Cited by 135 publications

References 78 publications

Development and psychometric properties of a new brief scale for subjective personal agency (SPA-5) in people with schizophrenia

Development and psychometric properties of a new brief scale for subjective personal agency (SPA-5) in people with schizophrenia

On the Characteristics of the Cognitive Dissonance State: Exploration Within the Pleasure Arousal Dominance Model

Cultural group perception enhances sense of agency in a multicultural society

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