School of Education and Human Development, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA.
College of Education, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA.
J Community Psychol. 2022 Apr;50(3):1430-1453. doi: 10.1002/jcop.22725. Epub 2021 Oct 4.
Mattering, defined as feeling valued and adding value, is a basic psychological need with significant explanatory power. Although several specific measures have been introduced to assess the construct, no integrated, multidimensional measure exists. This limits the ability of researchers to investigate mattering in ecological contexts. This paper seeks to address this gap by introducing the Mattering in Domains of Life Scale (MIDLS) and evaluating its internal structure and convergent validity. Using data from a single, large US representative sample, the analysis validated the overall hypothesized factor structure, consisting of feeling valued and adding value across the personal, interpersonal, occupational, and community domains, as well as overall mattering. Convergent validity was assessed by comparing the various MIDLS subscales to eight established scales. Overall results provide evidence that the MIDLS is a valid scale measuring an essentially unidimensional construct composed of eight subdomains.
有意义感，即感到被重视和有价值感，是一种基本的心理需求，具有很强的解释力。尽管已经引入了一些具体的措施来评估这一概念，但目前还没有综合的、多维的衡量标准。这限制了研究人员在生态环境中研究有意义感的能力。本文旨在通过引入生活领域重要性量表（MIDLS）来解决这一差距，并评估其内部结构和收敛效度。利用来自美国一个代表性大样本的数据，分析验证了整体假设的因素结构，包括个人、人际、职业和社区领域的被重视感和价值感，以及整体的重要感。通过将 MIDLS 的各个分量表与八个已建立的量表进行比较，评估了收敛效度。总体结果表明，MIDLS 是一个有效的量表，用于衡量一个由八个子领域组成的基本单维结构。
