What the Need for Closure Scale Measures and What It Does Not: Toward Differentiating Among Related Epistemic Motives
作者： Steven L. Neuberg , T. Nicole Judice , Stephen G. West
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.72.6.1396
关键词: Discriminant validity 、 Closure (psychology) 、 Scale (social sciences) 、 Cognitive closure 、 Rating scale 、 Epistemology 、 Preference 、 Validity 、 Ambiguity 、 Social psychology 、 Psychology
摘要: The Need for Closure Scale (NFCS; D. M. Webster & A. W. Kruglanski, 1994) was introduced to assess the extent which a person, faced with decision o r judgment, desires any answer, as compared confusion and ambiguity. NFCS presented being unidimensional having adequate discriminant validity. Our data contradict these conceptual psychometric claims. As scale, is redundant Personal Structure (PNS; Thompson, E. Naccarato, K. Parker, 1989). When used more appropriately multidimensional instrument, 3 of its facets are PNS Scale, 4th Fear Invalidity (M. Thompson et al., It suggested that masks important distinctions between 2 independent epistemic motives: preference quick, decisive answers (nonspecific closure) need create maintain simple structures (one form f specific closure).
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