EXPERIENCE OF USING THE RUSSIFIED VERSION OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE “EVENTS AND BEHAVIORS AFFECTING STATUS AND REPUTATION” AT THE RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN SAMPLES
Journal Title: Problems of Psychology in the 21st Century - Year 2012, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
This research was designed with a view to presenting the specific results of the usage of the russified version of D. Buss questionnaire “Events and behaviors affecting status and reputation” on a sample of Russian participants. This psychodiagnostic measure allows to assess the different manifestations of status behavior and to predict the development of tactic techniques and strategies of status behavior aimed at gaining and maintaining an individual’s position in the hierarchical social structure. The main goal of the research was the approbation of D. Buss questionnaire on the Russian sample: testing the scales consistency and comparison the data and the standard deviations with the American sample, that formed the starting point for further development and modification of this psychodiagostic measure. The russified version of questionnaire (216 items comprising 23 scales of tactics of status behavior) has showen the high level of reliability and validity. In the study (N = 185) the tactic scales show the high internal consistency (the internal consistency varies in the range of 0.44 – 0.78 among the participants of both Russian and American samples). The russified version of questionnaire was used in Russia for the first time and it can be used in the basic and application researches in future.
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Kochetova, T
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