Martinson Brian C, Smallfield Jarvis, Magley Vicki J, Thrush Carol R, Gunsalus C K
Retired, Saint Paul, MI, United States.
Department of Management, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI, United States.
Front Res Metr Anal. 2025 Feb 25;10:1516726. doi: 10.3389/frma.2025.1516726. eCollection 2025.
This research describes the development and validation of the CARES Climate Survey, a 22-item measure designed to assess interpersonal dimensions of work-unit climates. Dimensions of work-unit climates are identified through work-unit member perceptions and include civility, interpersonal accountability, conflict resolution, and institutional harassment responsiveness.
Two samples ( = 1,384; = 868) of academic researchers, including one from the North American membership of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and one from a large research-intensive university, responded to the CARES and additional measures via an online survey.
We demonstrate content validity of the CARES measure and confirm structural validity through exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses which yielded four dimensions of interpersonal climate. In addition, we confirm the CARES internal reliability, construct validity, and excellent sub-group invariance.
The CARES is a brief, psychometrically sound instrument that can be used by researchers, institutional leaders, and other practitioners to assess interpersonal climates in organizational work-units.
ORIGINALITY/VALUE: This is the first study to develop and validate such a measure of interpersonal climates specifically in research-intensive organizations, using rigorous psychometric methods, grounded in both theory and prior research on work-unit climates.
本研究描述了CARES气候调查的开发与验证过程，这是一项包含22个条目的测量工具，旨在评估工作单位氛围的人际维度。工作单位氛围的维度通过工作单位成员的感知来确定，包括文明礼貌、人际问责、冲突解决以及机构对骚扰行为的应对能力。
两组学术研究人员样本（n = 1384；n = 868）参与了调查，一组来自美国地球物理联盟（AGU）的北美会员，另一组来自一所大型研究型大学，他们通过在线调查对CARES及其他测量工具进行了回应。
我们证明了CARES测量工具的内容效度，并通过探索性和验证性因素分析确认了其结构效度，分析得出了人际氛围的四个维度。此外，我们还确认了CARES的内部信度、结构效度以及出色的子群体不变性。
CARES是一种简短且心理测量学上可靠的工具，研究人员、机构领导及其他从业者可使用它来评估组织工作单位中的人际氛围。
原创性/价值：这是第一项专门针对研究密集型组织开发并验证此类人际氛围测量工具的研究，采用了严谨的心理测量方法，以工作单位氛围的理论和先前研究为基础。
