Assessing the Implicit Theory of Willpower for Strenuous Mental Activities Scale: Multigroup, across-gender, and cross-cultural measurement invariance and convergent and divergent validity.
- Autor(en)
- C.M. Napolitano, Veronika Job Sutnar
- Abstrakt
Why do some people struggle with self-control (colloquially called willpower) whereas others are able to sustain it during challenging circumstances Recent research showed that a person's implicit theories of willpower whether they think self-control capacity is a limited or nonlimited resource predict sustained self-control on laboratory tasks and on goal-related outcomes in everyday life. The present research tests the Implicit Theory of Willpower for Strenuous Mental Activities Scale (or ITW-M) Scale for measurement invariance across samples and gender within each culture, and two cultural contexts (the U.S. and Switzerland/Germany). Across a series of multigroup confirmatory factor analyses, we found support for the measurement invariance of the ITW-M scale across samples within and across two cultures, as well as across men and women. Further, the analyses showed expected patterns of convergent (with life-satisfaction and trait-self-control) and discriminant validity (with implicit theory of intelligence). These results provide guidelines for future research and clinical practice using the ITW-M scale for the investigation of latent group differences, for example, between gender or cultures.
- Organisation(en)
- Externe Organisation(en)
- Universität Zürich (UZH), Unknown External Organisation Unbekannt/undefiniert
- Journal
- Psychological Assessment
- Band
- 30
- Seiten
- 1049–1064
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 16
- ISSN
- 1040-3590
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0000557
- Publikationsdatum
- 08-2018
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 501013 Motivationspsychologie
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Psychiatry and Mental health, Clinical Psychology
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/assessing-the-implicit-theory-of-willpower-for-strenuous-mental-activities-scale-multigroup-acrossgender-and-crosscultural-measurement-invariance-and-convergent-and-divergent-validity(9a30a6a7-3bd4-4e0d-b5a2-0ce5d5bcc3cf).html