P-Hacking,P-Curves, and thePSM-Performance Relationship: Is There Evidential Value?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Vogel, Dominik; Homberg, Fabian
• 署名单位: University of Hamburg; Luiss Guido Carli University
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/puar.13273
• 发表日期: 2021
• 页码: 191-204
• 关键词: public-service motivation; ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR; JOB-PERFORMANCE; transformational leadership; MEDIATING ROLE; P-hacking; COMMITMENT; employees; satisfaction; CORRUPTION

摘要

Recent developments in the social sciences have demonstrated that we cannot uncritically aggregate the published research on a particular effect to conclude about its presence or absence. Instead, questionable research practices such asp-hacking (conducting additional analyses or collecting new data to obtain significant results) and selective publication of significant results can produce a body of published research that misleads readers even if it contains many significant results. It is, therefore, necessary to assess the evidential value of the research on a certain effect; that is, one must rule out that it is the result of questionable research practices. We introduce the p-curve method to public administration research and apply it to the research on the relationship between public service motivation (PSM) and individual performance, to demonstrate how the evidential value of a body of published research can be assessed. We find that this particular literature contains evidential value.