Dispositional resistance to change: Measurement equivalence and the link to personal values across 17 nations.
Year: 2008
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The concept of dispositional resistance to change has been introduced in a series of exploratory and confirmatory analyses through which the validity of the Resistance to Change (RTC) Scale has been established (S. Oreg, 2003). However, the vast majority of participants with whom the scale was validated were from the United States. The purpose of the present work was to examine the meaningfulness of the construct and the validity of the scale across nations. Measurement equivalence analyses of data from 17 countries, representing 13 languages and 4 continents, confirmed the cross-national validity of the scale. Equivalent patterns of relationships between personal values and RTC across samples extend the nomological net of the construct and provide further evidence that dispositional resistance to change holds equivalent meanings across nations.
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology
Authors: Shaul Oreg, Mahmut Bayazit, Maria Vakola, Luis Arciniega, Achilles Armenakis, Rasa Barkauskiene, Nikos Bozionelos, Yuka Fujimoto, Luis González, Jian Han, Martina Hřebíčková, Nerina Jimmieson, Jana Kordačová, Hitoshi Mitsuhashi, Boris Mlačić, Ivana Ferić, Marina Kotrla Topić, Sandra Ohly, Per Øystein Saksvik, Hilde Hetland, Ingvild Saksvik, Karen van Dam
Institutions: University of Haifa, Sabancı Üniversitesi, Athens University of Economics and Business, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Auburn University, Vilnius University, Deakin University, Universidad de Salamanca, China Europe International Business School, Charles University, The University of Queensland, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Keio University, University of Zagreb, Institut Društvenih Znanosti Ivo Pilar, Goethe University Frankfurt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, University of Bergen, Tilburg University
Language: English
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Award: G7443399159
OpenAlex ID: W2170717892