a Department of Psychology and Neuroscience , Baylor University.
J Pers Assess. 2018 May-Jun;100(3):281-291. doi: 10.1080/00223891.2017.1303774. Epub 2017 Apr 17.
This 2-part study described the development and preliminary validation of the State Mental Contamination Scale (SMCS), a multi-item self-report measure of state mental contamination. In Study 1, community adults (N = 211) in the United States were randomly assigned to a pathogen disgust, moral disgust, or neutral condition and then completed the SMCS. Study 1 results supported a 1-factor structure of the SMCS items. Scores on the SMCS items evidenced good internal consistency and strong interitem correlations. SMCS scores were significantly greater following the 2 disgust conditions relative to the neutral condition and a full range of SMCS scores were found in the disgust conditions. An independent sample of community adults (N = 121) from the United States participated in Study 2 to extend Study 1 results. Study 2 results indicated that SMCS scores were manipulated independently of trait mental contamination, more strongly related to convergent than a discriminant measure, and shared unique variance with a criterion measure after controlling for convergent measures. The future use of the SMCS is discussed.
本研究分为两部分，描述了状态心理污染量表（SMCS）的开发和初步验证，这是一种多项目自我报告的状态心理污染衡量工具。在研究 1 中，美国的社区成年人（N=211）被随机分配到病原体厌恶、道德厌恶或中性条件，然后完成了 SMCS。研究 1 的结果支持 SMCS 项目的 1 因素结构。SMCS 项目的得分具有良好的内部一致性和较强的项目间相关性。与中性条件相比，SMCS 得分在厌恶条件下显著更高，并且在厌恶条件下发现了广泛的 SMCS 得分范围。来自美国的另一组社区成年人（N=121）参与了研究 2，以扩展研究 1 的结果。研究 2 的结果表明，SMCS 得分可以独立于特质心理污染进行操作，与趋同测量相比，与区分测量的关系更强，并且在控制趋同测量后，与标准测量共享独特的方差。讨论了未来使用 SMCS 的问题。
