Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China.
Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Gerontologist. 2019 Nov 16;59(6):e664-e673. doi: 10.1093/geront/gny121.
Information-seeking (IS) and emotion-regulatory (ER) motivation play meaningful roles in age-related changes in social interaction across adulthood. This study aimed to develop and validate the Social Motivation Questionnaire (SMQ) to assess these two types of motivation.
Ten items were selected from a pool as the candidate items of SMQ and were administered to 480 German adults (20-91 years old) for validation. These items were also administered to 150 U.S. (18-40 years old) and 131 Hong Kong younger adults (18 to 26 years old) for cultural-invariance examination.
Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses showed that a two-factor, eight-item structure fits the German adults' data well with satisfactory reliability. Multigroup comparisons showed cross-age invariance among younger, middle-aged, and older German adults, as well as cross-cultural invariance among German, U.S., and Hong Kong younger adults.
A new questionnaire, SMQ, was developed and validated to measure IS and ER social motivation across adulthood and across cultures.
信息寻求（IS）和情绪调节（ER）动机在成年期的社会互动中与年龄相关的变化中起着重要作用。本研究旨在开发和验证社会动机问卷（SMQ），以评估这两种动机。
从一个题库中选择了 10 个项目作为 SMQ 的候选项目，并对 480 名德国成年人（20-91 岁）进行了验证。这些项目还对 150 名美国（18-40 岁）和 131 名香港年轻成年人（18 至 26 岁）进行了文化不变性检验。
探索性和验证性因素分析表明，一个两因素、八项的结构非常适合德国成年人的数据，具有令人满意的可靠性。多组比较显示，德国年轻、中年和老年成年人之间具有年龄不变性，以及德国、美国和香港年轻成年人之间具有文化不变性。
开发并验证了一种新的问卷 SMQ，用于测量成年期和跨文化的 IS 和 ER 社会动机。
