Reliability and Factorial Validity of the Core Self-Evaluations Scale

European Journal of Psychological Assessment Pub Date : 2024-02-05 DOI:10.1027/1015-5759/a000783

Timo Gnambs, U. Schroeders

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Abstract: The Core Self-Evaluations Scale (CSES) measures a broad personality trait reflecting individuals’ self-appraisals of their worth, capabilities, and control of their lives. Although the CSES was designed to capture a single trait, factor analytic studies often found more complex measurement structures. These either referred to different content facets or methodological artifacts due to the item wording. The present random-effects meta-analysis summarized correlation matrices from 53 samples including 31,843 respondents. After accounting for acquiescent responding, meta-analytic confirmatory factor analyses revealed a single common factor for all items. The factor was highly reliable (ω = .87) and demonstrated partial metric measurement invariance across English, German, and Spanish language versions as well as cultural tendencies of individualism and flexibility. However, Chinese and Romanian translations exhibited substantially lower factor loadings. These results corroborate the use of the CSES as a unidimensional measure, albeit systematic investigations of measurement invariance are recommended before its use in cross-cultural research.

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核心自我评价量表的可靠性和因子效度

摘要：核心自我评价量表（CSES）测量的是一种广泛的人格特质，反映了个人对自身价值、能力和生活控制能力的自我评价。尽管 CSES 的设计是为了捕捉单一特质，但因子分析研究经常发现其测量结构更为复杂。这些结构要么是指不同的内容方面，要么是指由于项目措辞造成的方法上的人为因素。本随机效应荟萃分析总结了包括 31,843 名受访者在内的 53 个样本的相关矩阵。在考虑了默许应答的因素后，元分析确认性因子分析显示所有项目都有一个共同的因子。该因子的可靠性很高（ω = .87），并且在英语、德语和西班牙语版本以及个人主义和灵活性的文化倾向中表现出部分度量测量的不变性。然而，中文和罗马尼亚语的翻译则显示出较低的因子负荷。尽管建议在跨文化研究中使用 CSES 之前对其测量不变量进行系统的调查，但这些结果证实了 CSES 是一种单维测量工具。

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