Cross-cultural analysis: Methods and applications

0363754 - PSÚ 2012 RIV US eng M - Monography Chapter
Oreg, S. - Bayazıt, M. - Vakola, M. - Arciniega, L. - Armenakis, A. - Barkauskiene, R. - Bozionelos, N. - Fujimoto, Y. - González, L. - Han, J. - Hřebíčková, Martina - Jimmieson, N. - Kordačová, J. - Mitsuhashi, H. - Mlačić, B. - Ferič, I. - Kotrla Topič, M. - Ohly, S. - Oystein Saksvik, P. - Hetland, H. - Saksvik, I.B. - van Dam, K. … Total 24 authors
Measurement equivalence of the dispositional resistance to change scale.
Cross-cultural analysis: Methods and applications. New York: Routledge, 2011 - (Davidov, E.; Schmidt, P.; Billiet, J.), s. 249-278. ISBN 978-1-84872-823-3
R&D Projects: GA AV ČR IAA700250702
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z70250504
Keywords : dispositional resistance to change * measurement * validation across cultures
Subject RIV: AN - Psychology

Two key aspects of cross-cultural research, applied to the personality construct of dispositional resistance to change are introduced. Dispositional resistance to change pertains to individuals’ personality-based inclination to resist change, across change situations. We review the procedures conducted for cross-culturally validating the resistance to change (RTC) scale in samples from 17 countries, representing 13 languages and four continents. Applying a Multi-Group Confirmatory Factor Analysis to data from 4201 undergraduates (average of 247 from each country) we found support for the four-factor structure of the RTC scale, demonstrating both configural and metric invariance. In the second part we tested relationships between mean RTC scores and cultural dimension scores. Specifically, we demonstrated meaningful relationships between countries’ mean RTC scores and cultural dimension scores from both the GLOBE study and Schwartz’s dimension scores.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0199428