Parsing social motivation: development and validation of a self-report measure of social effort
| Autor: | Jasmine Mote, Benjamin A. Tabak, Anne C. Uhlman, Daniel Fulford, Samuel J. Abplanalp, Talha Alvi, Emma Weizenbaum |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of mental health (Abingdon, England). 31(3) |
| ISSN: | 1360-0567 |
| Popis: | Reduced efforts to form and maintain social bonds can exist in the context of sufficient desire for social connection. This disconnect between social liking/wanting and effortful behavior may contribute to social impairment. Despite many available questionnaires that assess sociability, desire or lack thereof for connection, and perceived social support, there is no current self-report assessment of social effort (i.e., tendencies toward exerting effort in the service of social connection). Our aim in this study was to develop and examine the factor structure of a scale designed to measure social motivation as reflected by effortful approach to form/maintain social bonds. The scale was administered to two samples of U.S. college students (total N = 981) and adults living in the U.S. via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk; N = 506). We analyzed the scale’s factor structure using exploratory structural equation modeling. We identified two factors that represented content related to social effort (e.g., “I often arrange events with other people”) and social conscientiousness (e.g., “I compliment others when they have done something well”); we named the measure the Social Effort and Conscientiousness Scale (SEACS). We examined convergent, divergent, and criterion validity, internal consistency, and measurement invariance of the SEACS. Results suggest the SEACS is a reliable and valid measure of social effort. We include discussion of potential applications of the SEACS, including its use in psychopathology research. |
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