{
  "creator": [
    "Bromme, Laurits",
    "Rothmund, Tobias",
    "Caprara, Gian Vittorio"
  ],
  "date": [
    "2020-03-17"
  ],
  "description": [
    "Caprara et al. (European Journal of Social Psychology 39:1002–1020, 2009) criticized existing measures of internal political efficacy for not taking into account psychological theories of self-efficacy and for the resulting low construct validity. As an alternative, they presented a ten-item measure called Perceived Political Self-Efficacy (P-PSE) Scale. Based on social cognitive theory, it adopts a psychological understanding of self-efficacy and captures the phenomenon in a more systematic and complete manner than previous measures of internal efficacy. We translated the P-PSE scale to German and tested it in a German national quota sample, using quotas for age, gender and education (N = 1025). We provided evidence on the scale’s construct validity (by testing ist correlations towards related constructs) and on its criterion validity (by regressing political participation propensity on the P-PSE score). The scale explained ΔR2 = 26% of people’s propensity for political participation over and above sociodemographic variables, and ΔR2 = 12% over and above previously existing measures, demonstrating its incremental value. We also tested cross-cultural measurement invariance towards an Italian sample, establishing configural, as well as partial metric and scalar invariance. In addition, we validated a four-item short version of the scale, which proved to be similarly valid as the full version. We argue, that these two measurement instruments provide a more adequate way of assessing internal political efficacy for research in German-speaking countries."
  ],
  "format": [
    "application/pdf"
  ],
  "identifier": [
    "https://miss.psychopen.eu/index.php/miss/article/view/11013",
    "10.1186/s42409-020-00013-4"
  ],
  "language": [
    "eng"
  ],
  "publisher": [
    "PsychOpen GOLD / Leibniz Institut for Psychology (ZPID)"
  ],
  "relation": [
    "https://miss.psychopen.eu/index.php/miss/article/view/11013/9651"
  ],
  "rights": [
    "Copyright (c) 2020 The Author(s)",
    "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
  ],
  "source": [
    "Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences; Vol. 2 (2020); Article 6 (2020)",
    "2523-8930"
  ],
  "subject": [
    "Internal political efficacy",
    "Self-efficacy",
    "Social cognitive theory",
    "Political participation",
    "Translation",
    "Construct validity"
  ],
  "title": [
    "A Translation and Validation of the Perceived Political Self-Efficacy (P-PSE) Scale for the Use in German Samples"
  ],
  "type": [
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/article",
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion"
  ]
}