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/9a30a6a7-3bd4-4e0d-b5a2-0ce5d5bcc3cf