Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Psychology Education, Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, No19 Xiniekouwai Street, Haidian District, Beijing, 100875, China.
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, London, England.
BMC Public Health. 2024 Feb 14;24(1):473. doi: 10.1186/s12889-024-17970-8.
Trait compliance involves people reacting favorably to demands made by others across different situations. This may lead to susceptibility to external pressures, exploitation, and manipulation. Moreover, trait compliance was found to correlate with various mental health outcomes, such as depression and anxiety. The Gudjonsson Compliance Scale (GCS) is an efficient tool for assessing trait compliance in Western contexts. To date, no study has validated the psychometric properties of the GCS in Chinese populations.
Two college student samples from China were recruited. The first sample (N = 4,276) was used to conduct exploratory factor analysis. The second (N = 4,356) was used to perform a confirmatory factor analysis. The reliability, measurement invariance, and correlational tests were conducted on the two combined samples.
The Chinese GCS showed a 3-factor structure, with two items deleted. Reliability was supported by moderate-to-good internal consistency of the three-factor scales and good internal consistency on the full scale. Strong measurement invariance across sex, ethnicity, and group recruitment was supported. Scores of the total scale and factor scales were found to significantly associated with several mental health problems.
The Chinese version of the GCS appears to be a valid and reliable instrument for measuring trait compliance and could promote both the assessment and research on compliance in Chinese population.
特质顺从是指人们在不同情境下对他人的要求做出积极反应。这可能导致对外界压力、剥削和操纵的易感性。此外，特质顺从与各种心理健康结果相关，如抑郁和焦虑。古德琼森顺从量表（GCS）是评估西方语境下特质顺从的有效工具。迄今为止，尚无研究验证 GCS 在中国人中的心理测量特性。
从中国招募了两个大学生样本。第一个样本（N=4276）用于进行探索性因素分析。第二个样本（N=4356）用于进行验证性因素分析。对两个合并样本进行了可靠性、测量不变性和相关性测试。
中文版 GCS 呈现出 3 因素结构，有 2 个项目被删除。三个因素量表的内部一致性为中等至良好，总量表的内部一致性较好，为可靠性提供了支持。跨性别、种族和群体招募的强测量不变性得到支持。总量表和因子量表的得分与多种心理健康问题显著相关。
中文版 GCS 似乎是一种有效且可靠的测量特质顺从的工具，可以促进中国人群中对顺从的评估和研究。
