Mannetti Lucia, Pierro Antonio, Kruglanski Arie, Taris Toon, Bezinovic Petar
University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy.
Br J Soc Psychol. 2002 Mar;41(Pt 1):139-56. doi: 10.1348/014466602165108.
This study was designed to compare the factor structure of Need for Closure Scale (NFCS) as it emerges from three European samples (Croatia, Italy and The Netherlands) to the structure emerging from a USA sample, and to test the invariance of the structure of the scale both across three European contexts and across European and US samples. This comparison was conducted to examine the generalizability of results obtained with the NFCS across cultures. The sample sizes employed in this study range from 201 (Croatia) to 418 (Italy) participants. First- and second-order confirmatory factor analysis and multiple-group measurement invariance tests were performed using the LISREL-8 program (Jöreskog and Sörbom, 1993). The analyses revealed that the factor structure of the scale was invariant across all samples, and that the best fitting model was one with two latent second-order factors, thus confirming results of previous studies (Kruglanski et al., 1997; Neuberg, Judice, & West, 1997).
本研究旨在比较从三个欧洲样本（克罗地亚、意大利和荷兰）得出的认知闭合需求量表（NFCS）的因子结构与从一个美国样本得出的结构，并检验该量表结构在三种欧洲背景下以及欧洲和美国样本之间的不变性。进行这种比较是为了检验使用NFCS在不同文化中所获结果的普遍性。本研究采用的样本量从201名参与者（克罗地亚）到418名参与者（意大利）不等。使用LISREL - 8程序（约雷斯克和瑟伯恩，1993年）进行了一阶和二阶验证性因子分析以及多组测量不变性检验。分析结果显示，该量表的因子结构在所有样本中都是不变的，并且最佳拟合模型是具有两个潜在二阶因子的模型，从而证实了先前研究的结果（克鲁格兰斯基等人，1997年；纽伯格、朱迪斯和韦斯特，1997年）。
