Personal Need for Structure als differenzialpsychologisches Konstrukt in der Sozialpsychologie

2006 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maya Machunsky ◽  
Thorsten Meiser
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Need For Cognition ◽  
Personal Need For Structure ◽  
Deutschsprachige Version

Zusammenfassung: Eine reliable und valide deutschsprachige Version der Personal Need for Structure (PNS)-Skala wird vorgestellt. Hierzu wurde eine Übersetzung der englischsprachigen Originalskala erstellt, welche einer Skalenanalyse unterzogen sowie anhand persönlichkeits- und sozialpsychologischer Variablen validiert wurde. Studie 1 (N = 702), in der die psychometrische Qualität der deutschsprachigen Übersetzung überprüft wurde, zeigte, dass die deutsche PNS-Skala hinsichtlich Reliabilität und Faktorenstruktur mit der englischen Originalskala vergleichbar ist. Die Prüfung der konvergenten wie divergenten Validität der PNS-Skala anhand der Persönlichkeitsvariablen des Fünf-Faktoren Inventar (Big Five) und Need for Cognition sowie Konservatismus erfolgt in Studie 2 (N = 86). In Studie 3 (N = 66) wird die deutsche PNS-Skala im Inhaltsbereich der Intergruppenforschung an den Variablen Identifikation mit der Eigengruppe, “diversity beliefs”, Wahrnehmung der Homogenität von Eigen- und Fremdgruppe und Eigengruppenfavorisierung validiert.

Need for Cognition in the Big-Five Factor Structure

1997 ◽  
Vol 131 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cyril J. Sadowski ◽  
Helen E. Cogburn
Keyword(s):  
Factor Structure ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Need For Cognition

scholarly journals Selling ourselves short? How abbreviated measures of personality change the way we think about personality and politics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bert Bakker ◽  
Yphtach Lelkes
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Need For Cognition ◽  
Criterion Validity ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Personality Change ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Policy Information ◽  
Personality And Politics

Political scientists who study the interplay between personality and politics overwhelmingly rely on short personality scales. We explore whether the length of theemployed personality scales affects the criterion validity of the scales. We show that Need for Cognition (NfC) increases reliance on party cues, but only when a longermeasure is employed. Additionally, while NfC increases reliance on policy information, the effect is more than twice as large when a longer measure is used. Finally, Big Five personality traits that have been dismissed as irrelevant to political ideology yield stronger and more consistent associations when larger batteries are employed. We also show that using high Cronbach’s alpha and factor loadings as indicators of scale qualitydoes not improve the criterion validity of brief measures. Hence, the measurement of personality conditions the conclusions we draw about the role of personality in politics

Faktorenstruktur, psychometrische Eigenschaften und Messinvarianz der deutschsprachigen Version des 60-Item HEXACO Persönlichkeitsinventars

Diagnostica ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 86-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morten Moshagen ◽  
Benjamin E. Hilbig ◽  
Ingo Zettler
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Psychometrische Eigenschaften ◽  
Deutschsprachige Version

Im letzten Jahrzehnt wurden in lexikalischen Untersuchungen über diverse Sprachen und Kulturen hinweg sechs grundlegende Persönlichkeitseigenschaften identifiziert, welche im HEXACO-Modell der Persönlichkeit abgebildet werden. Die vorliegende Untersuchung behandelt eine umfangreiche psychometrische Evaluation der deutschen Version des 60-Item HEXACO-Persönlichkeitsinventars. Die sechsfaktorielle Struktur wurde anhand einer großen Stichprobe (N = 3240) bestätigt. Die resultierenden Faktoren verfügten über zufriedenstellende Reliabilitäten und waren praktisch unkorreliert. Überdies konnte Messinvarianz über das Geschlecht belegt werden. Anhand einer weiteren Stichprobe (N = 1012) wurde gezeigt, dass die 60-Item Version zu keinem bedeutsamen Informationsverlust gegenüber der 96-Item Version führt. Die Bestimmung von Korrelationen zu den Big-Five Persönlichkeitsfaktoren mittels einer dritten Stichprobe (N = 235) erbrachte durchweg erwartungskonforme Ergebnisse. Letztlich konnten anhand einer vierten Stichprobe (N = 31) hohe Retest-Reliabilitäten über einen Zeitraum von 7 Monaten belegt werden. Somit eignet sich die deutschsprachige Version des HEXACO-60 Persönlichkeitsinventars zur reliablen, validen und verhältnismäßig ökonomischen Erfassung der sechs Faktoren des HEXACO-Modells der Persönlichkeit.

Need for Cognition

2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 230-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Furnham ◽  
Jeremy D. Thorne
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Need For Cognition ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
General Intelligence ◽  
Cognitive Challenge ◽  
N 93 ◽  
Intelligence Scores ◽  
Polarity Effects ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between need for cognition (NFC) and measures of both personality and intelligence was investigated. Study 1 (N = 195) addressed recent concerns over item-polarity effects in NFC scales. With these effects removed, a reworded 34-item NFC scale showed evidence of multidimensionality. Study 2 (N = 93) investigated NFC and the Big Five personality traits as well as correlates of general intelligence. The regression model accounted for 24% of the variance in intelligence scores. Results showed that NFC mediated the relationship between Openness to Experience and intelligence, and suggested that NFC might similarly mediate the relationship between Neuroticism and intelligence. Results from the two studies suggest possible benefits of conceptualizing NFC as a motivation for cognitive challenge. Limitations are considered.

Validierung einer deutschsprachigen Version des Career Futures Inventory (CFI)

2013 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Spurk ◽  
Judith Volmer
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Career Adaptability ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Eine Analyse ◽  
Career Optimism ◽  
Deutschsprachige Version

Das Career Futures Inventory (CFI; Rottingaus, Day & Borgen, 2005 ) erfasst die drei laufbahnbezogenen Zukunftsfaktoren career adaptability (Berufliche Anpassungsfähigkeit), career optimism (Beruflicher Optimismus) und knowledge of job market (Arbeitsmarktwissen). Die Ziele dieser Studie waren (a) eine deutschsprachige Version des CFIs zu konstruieren und (b) an zwei Stichproben mit Erwerbstätigen mittels (c) unterschiedlicher Indikatoren des Berufserfolgs und anhand von Persönlichkeitseigenschaften zu validieren. Es konnte in beiden Stichproben (N1 = 153; N2 = 110) die 3-faktorielle Struktur des CFIs nachgewiesen werden. Zudem konnten Annahmen zur konvergenten und diskriminanten Validität in beiden Stichproben bestätigt werden, da die CFI-Faktoren in erwarteter Richtung mit Berufserfolg (z. B. Beförderungen, Karrierezufriedenheit) bzw. Persönlichkeitseigenschaften (d. h. Big Five) korrelierten bzw. nicht korrelierten. Eine Analyse der inkrementellen Validität zeigte, dass Arbeitsmarktwissen zusätzliche Varianz beim Gehalt über Kontrollvariablen und Persönlichkeit hinaus erklärte. Hinsichtlich Karrierezufriedenheit war dies für beruflichen Optimismus der Fall. Diese Validierungsstudie ermöglicht den Einsatz des CFIs im deutschsprachigen Raum.

Personal Need for Structure, Need for Cognition, and Attitudes Toward Homosexuals

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randall A. Gordon ◽  
Lisa I. Mitchell ◽  
Lisa K. Bents ◽  
Kathy M. Kosmerl ◽  
Kathy E. Reinhardt
Keyword(s):  
Need For Cognition ◽  
Personal Need For Structure ◽  
Attitudes Toward Homosexuals

scholarly journals Incremental Validity of Character Measures Over the Big Five and Fluid intelligence in Predicting Academic Achievement

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anqing Zheng ◽  
Daniel A Briley ◽  
Ross Jacobucci ◽  
K. Paige Harden ◽  
Elliot M. Tucker-Drob
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Fluid Intelligence ◽  
Need For Cognition ◽  
Incremental Validity ◽  
Individual Character ◽  
Concept Mastery ◽  
8Th Grade ◽  
Regularization Techniques ◽  
Predictors Of Academic Achievement

Student characteristics like grit, need for cognition, intellectual self-concept, mastery orientation, school value, and growth mindset are important predictors of academic achievement. Yet, it remains unclear to what extent these proposed measures provide additional theoretical or empirical utility over established measures of general personality, such as the Big Five. Here, we examine whether character measures display incremental validity over and above the Big Five Inventory and measures of fluid intelligence when predicting academic performance in a large sample (N = 1,583) of 3rd through 8th grade students. The results indicate that multiple character measures demonstrate incremental prediction, particularly need for cognition (ΔR2=6.5% over personality, ΔR2=2.5% over personality and fluid intelligence) and school value (ΔR2=4.2% over personality). Applying regularization techniques to identify a parsimonious solution, both coefficients for need for cognition and school value remained non-zero and accounted for unique variance. The incremental predictive power of individual character measures was primarily due to common variance across the character measures (ΔR2=11.5% over personality, 9.3% over personality and fluid intelligence). Educationally-contextualized measures have utility for predicting achievement in addition to decontextualized behavioral and ability measures.

scholarly journals The convergent and discriminant validity of the need for cognition

Psihologija ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Trogrlic ◽  
Aleksandar Vasic
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Need For Cognition ◽  
Convergent And Discriminant Validity ◽  
Age Dependent ◽  
Serbian Version ◽  
Cognition Scale

The Serbian version of the short form of the Need for Cognition Scale (NCS - Cacciopo et al., 1984) showed acceptable convergent and discriminant validity. In accordance with previous findings, the need for cognition is gender-independent and age-dependent construct. Correlations of the need for cognition with personality traits and intelligence are also in accordance with previous findings. Concerning the personality traits, the most salient correlates are authoritarianism, extraversion, Big Five openness to experience and neuroticism. There is, also, a marginally significant relationship between the need for cognition and conscientiousness. On the level of narrow cognitive abilities, the need for cognition is significantly associated with dimensions of serial and parallel processing. The g-factor has the same effect as the narrower aspects of cognitive functioning.

scholarly journals A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Aesthetic Preferences for Neatly Organized Compositions: Native Chinese- vs. Native Dutch-Speaking Samples

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eline Van Geert ◽  
Rong Ding ◽  
Johan Wagemans
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Comparison ◽  
Aesthetic Appreciation ◽  
Big Five Inventory ◽  
Personal Need For Structure ◽  
Cross Cultural Comparison ◽  
Consistent Relationship ◽  
Aesthetic Preferences

Do aesthetic preferences for images of neatly organized compositions (e.g., images collected on blogs like Things Organized Neatly©) generalize across cultures? In an earlier study (Van Geert & Wagemans, 2019), focusing on stimulus and person properties related to order and complexity, Dutch-speaking participants (N = 421) indicated their preference for one of two simultaneously presented images (100 pairs) and completed questionnaires such as the Big Five Inventory and the Personal Need for Structure scale. Preferences related to differences in order, soothingness, and fascination ratings between the images in a pair. In the current study, we compared the data of the native Dutch-speaking participants from this earlier sample (N = 356) to newly collected data from a native Chinese-speaking sample (N = 220). Overall, aesthetic preferences were quite similar across cultures, and preferences related to differences in soothingness and order between the images in a pair for both Chinese-speaking and Dutch-speaking participants. However, some interesting differences were found as well. Chinese-speaking participants showed an additional preference for simplicity, and Dutch-speaking participants for fascination. As fascination ratings of the images related positively with measures of order and complexity, whereas soothingness ratings related positively with order and negatively with complexity (Van Geert & Wagemans, 2019), these results hint at a cross-culturally consistent relationship between order and aesthetic appreciation, but a cross-culturally diverse link between complexity and appreciation.

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