Km. Kacmar et M. Valle, DIMENSIONALITY OF THE MEASURE OF INGRATIATORY BEHAVIORS IN ORGANIZATIONAL SETTINGS (MIBOS) SCALE, Educational and psychological measurement, 57(2), 1997, pp. 314-328
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18
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology, Educational","Psychologym Experimental","Mathematical, Methods, Social Sciences","Mathematics, Miscellaneous
The present study examined the dimensionality of K. Kumar and M. Beyed
ein's Measure of Ingratiatory Behaviors in Organizational Settings (MI
BOS) scale, which is composed of four subscales: (a) Other Enhancement
, (b) Opinion Conformity, (c) Self-Presentation, and (d) Favor Renderi
ng. Confirmatory factor analysis using LISREL7 on data collected from
203 state government employees failed to confirm the Kumar and Beyerle
in solution. Follow-up analyses using exploratory factor analysis high
light the difficulties involved in arriving at an unequivocal solution
that adequately distinguishes scale items. Suggestions are offered to
improve the psychometric properties of the MIBOS scale.