Dispositional resistance to change:: Measurement equivalence and the link to personal values across 17 nations

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Oreg, Shaul; Bayazit, Mahmut; Vakola, Maria; Arciniega, Luis; Armenakis, Achilles; Barkauskiene, Rasa; Bozionelos, Nikos; Fujimoto, Yuka; Gonzalez, Luis; Han, Jian; Hrebickova, Martina; Jimmieson, Nerina; Kordacova, Jana; Mitsuhashi, Hitoshi; Mlacic, Boris; Feric, Ivana; Topic, Marina Kotrla; Ohly, Sandra; Saksvik, Per Oystein; Hetland, Hilde; Saksvik, Ingvild; van Dam, Karen
• 署名单位: University of Haifa; Sabanci University; Athens University of Economics & Business; Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico; Auburn University System; Auburn University; Mykolas Romeris University; Durham University; Deakin University; University of Salamanca; China Europe International Business School; Peking University; Czech Academy of Sciences; Institute of Psychology of the Czech Academy of Sciences; University of Queensland; Slovak Academy of Sciences; Institute of Experimental Psychology, CSPS SAS; University of Tsukuba; Goethe University Frankfurt; Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU); University of Bergen; Tilburg University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.93.4.935
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 935-944
• 关键词: resistance to change; PERSONAL VALUES; measurement equivalence; scale validation

摘要

The concept of dispositional resistance to change has been introduced in a series of exploratory and confirmatory analyses through which the validity of the Resistance to Change (RTC) Scale has been established (S. Oreg, 2003). However, the vast majority of participants with whom the scale, was validated were from the United States. The purpose of the present work was to examine the meaningfulness of the construct and the validity of the scale across nations. Measurement equivalence analyses of data from 17 countries, representing 13 languages and 4 continents, confirmed the cross-national validity of the scale. Equivalent patterns of relationships between personal values and RTC across samples extend the nomological net of the construct and provide further evidence that dispositional resistance to change holds equivalent meanings across nations.