Development and Validation of a Multicultural Cognition Scale(MCS) for Adolescent

This paper introduces a new scale to measure cognitive cultural differences, drawing on the theory of analytic versus holistic thought. Examining culture from a cognitive perspective is a challenge to traditional values-based approaches. Existing measures based on this framework are methodologically problematic and warrant renewal. This paper presents development and validation studies for a new instrument that measures analytic versus holistic cognitive tendencies at the individual level. The scale assesses four previously established dimensions: attention, causality, contradiction, and change. The present work follows well-established scale development protocols and the results show that the 16-item Holistic Cognition Scale (HCS) is a valid and reliable measure of analytic versus holistic thought. Three new studies with four unique samples (N = 41; 272; 454; and 454) provide evidence to support the content validity, reliability, and factor structure of the new instrument, as well as its convergent, discriminant, and concurrent validity against comparable constructs. Convergent validity is established against measures of compromise, intuition, complexity, and collectivism; predictive validity is established against Hofstede’s (1980) five cultural value dimensions; and discriminant validity is established using the average variance extracted from a confirmatory factor analysis. The new HCS is an improvement over previous attempts with a balanced number of forward- and reverse-scored items, superior reliability, less redundancy, and stronger factor loadings.

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Development and validation of the short use of creative cognition scale in studying

Educational Psychology ◽

10.1080/01443410.2013.857011 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 35 (3) ◽

pp. 294-314 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Jekaterina Rogaten ◽

Giovanni B. Moneta

Keyword(s):

Creative Cognition ◽

Development And Validation ◽

Cognition Scale

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Cognition and attitude of Chinese people toward postdisaster psychological crisis intervention: Scale development and validation

Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal ◽

10.2224/sbp.5208 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 45 (1) ◽

pp. 69-79

Author(s):

Peng Wang ◽

Junli Zhou ◽

Minxia Xu ◽

Xiaoyue Li ◽

Fengqiang Gao ◽

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Keyword(s):

Crisis Intervention ◽

Positive Attitude ◽

Internal Consistency Reliability ◽

Attitude Scale ◽

Chinese People ◽

Scale Development And Validation ◽

Confirmatory Factor ◽

Three Stages ◽

Development And Validation ◽

Cognition Scale

Our aim was to develop a scale to measure the cognition and attitude of Chinese people toward postdisaster psychological crisis intervention and to evaluate the psychometric properties of the measure. The study was divided into three stages: (a) Designing the scale items; (b) administering the pilot measure and performing psychometric analysis; (c) implementing administration of the final version of the measure, and performing confirmatory factor analysis with 1,195 participants residing in the Shandong and Sichuan Provinces in China. The Cognition scale contains 15 items in 3 subscales we labeled as theoretical cognition, professional cognition, and objective cognition. The Attitude scale contains 17 items in 3 subscales of obligatory attitude, constructive attitude, and positive attitude. Both scales exhibited adequate validity and internal consistency reliability. The Chinese People's Cognition and Attitude Toward Postdisaster Psychological Crisis Intervention Scale is reliable and valid and can be used by postdisaster aid providers and researchers to assess the cognition and attitude of Chinese people who have experienced a disaster.

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Development and Validation of a Self-Critical Cognition Scale

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1993.72.1.147 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 72 (1) ◽

pp. 147-154 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

F. Ishu Ishiyama ◽

Paul A. Munson

Keyword(s):

Relevant Information ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Negative Evaluation ◽

Factor Solution ◽

Male And Female ◽

Negative Adjective ◽

High Internal Consistency ◽

Test Retest Reliability ◽

Development And Validation ◽

Cognition Scale

A 13-item Self-critical Cognition scale was developed to measure a self-critical and self-defeating cognitive tendency in processing self-relevant information. The scale, administered to 561 male and female university students, evidenced high internal consistency (α = .89) and test-retest reliability of r138 = .83 over a 6.5-week interval. A factor analysis yielded a most interpretable 2-factor solution, Factor 1: negative self-processing and Factor 2: failure in positive self-processing. The scale's construct validity was supported by meaningful correlations of –.71 with Rosenberg's self-esteem, .43 with Watson and Friend's social anxiety and distress, .62 with Cheek and Buss's shyness, .57 with Watson and Friend's fear of negative evaluation, .42 with Beck and Beamesderfer's depression, and .34 with negative adjective counts in spontaneous adjective listing in a self-descriptive task. Use of the scale for experimental and clinical research is suggested.

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Development and Validation of the Cultural Cognition Scale (CCS)

Academy of Management Proceedings ◽

10.5465/ambpp.2016.12080abstract ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 2016 (1) ◽

pp. 12080

Author(s):

Andrei Lux ◽

Steven Grover

Keyword(s):

Cultural Cognition ◽

Development And Validation ◽

Cognition Scale

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Scale-free architectures support representational diversity

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19002966 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

Author(s):

Chris Fields ◽

James F. Glazebrook

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Architecture ◽

Levels Of Abstraction ◽

Scale Free ◽

Abstract Representations ◽

Computational Architecture ◽

Architectural Models ◽

Cognition Scale

Abstract Gilead et al. propose an ontology of abstract representations based on folk-psychological conceptions of cognitive architecture. There is, however, no evidence that the experience of cognition reveals the architecture of cognition. Scale-free architectural models propose that cognition has the same computational architecture from sub-cellular to whole-organism scales. This scale-free architecture supports representations with diverse functions and levels of abstraction.

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