Understanding the relation between the need and ability to achieve closure: A single paper meta-analysis assessing subscale correlations

IF 2.3 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

New Ideas in Psychology Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI:10.1016/j.newideapsych.2022.101007

Monica Gendi , Mark Rubin , Samineh Sanatkar

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Abstract

The need for closure and the ability to achieve closure are generally thought to be independent from one another. However, previous researchers have found inconsistent relations between these two variables, possibly due to measurement scale modifications that slightly shifted how the underlying constructs were assessed. The present research attempted to address some of these methodological issues with previous research by conducting a single-paper meta-analysis on the correlations between the ability to achieve closure scale and the full need for closure scale and each of its five subscales. Across six university student samples (N = 1983), the full need for closure scale and most of its subscales were significantly negatively correlated with the ability to achieve closure. This finding suggests that the ability to achieve closure affects the costs and benefits of closure and therefore, consistent with lay epistemic theory, the ability to achieve closure predicts individual differences in the need for closure.

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理解闭合需求和能力之间的关系:一篇评估子量表相关性的元分析论文

对封闭的需要和实现封闭的能力通常被认为是相互独立的。然而，先前的研究人员发现这两个变量之间的关系不一致，可能是由于测量量表的修改略微改变了评估潜在结构的方式。本研究试图通过对实现关闭能力量表和关闭完全需要量表及其五个子量表之间的相关性进行单篇荟萃分析，来解决这些方法上的一些问题。在6个大学生样本(N = 1983)中，关闭完全需要量表及其大部分子量表与实现关闭的能力呈显著负相关。这一发现表明，实现封闭的能力影响封闭的成本和收益，因此，与外行认识论理论一致，实现封闭的能力预测了封闭需求的个体差异。

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期刊介绍： New Ideas in Psychology is a journal for theoretical psychology in its broadest sense. We are looking for new and seminal ideas, from within Psychology and from other fields that have something to bring to Psychology. We welcome presentations and criticisms of theory, of background metaphysics, and of fundamental issues of method, both empirical and conceptual. We put special emphasis on the need for informed discussion of psychological theories to be interdisciplinary. Empirical papers are accepted at New Ideas in Psychology, but only as long as they focus on conceptual issues and are theoretically creative. We are also open to comments or debate, interviews, and book reviews.