FURTHER ASSESSMENT OF THE STRUCTURE OF HINKIN AND SCHRIESHEIM MEASURES OF INTERPERSONAL POWER

Confirmatory factor analysis results for Hinkin and Schriesheim's meas ures of interpersonal power are reported, Consistent with French and R aven's theoretical work a five-factor oblique model provided the best fit to the data in two independent samples. No support was obtained fo r a two-factor model consisting of Position Power (Coercive, Reward, a nd Legitimate power items) and Personal Power (Referent and Expert pow er items). For the five-factor oblique model, invariance tests suggest ed that six of the factor pattern coefficients and four of the disatte nuated correlations were noninvariant across the two groups. The discu ssion suggests directions for future work.