Published: 2021-08-04

A cross-cultural study of purposive “traits of action”: Measurement invariance of scales based on the action–trait theory of human motivation using exploratory structural equation modeling

Larry C. Bernard , Jan Cieciuch , Andrew Lac , Barbara Žuro , Dino Krupić , Michael Richter , Nicolas Silvestrini , Bettina von Helversen
Studia Psychologica: Theoria et praxis
Section: Commentaries
https://doi.org/10.21697/sp.2021.21.1.01

Abstract

The Action–Trait theory of human motivation posits that individual differences in predispositional traits of action may account for variance in contemporary purposeful human behavior. Prior research has supported the theory, psychometric properties of scales designed to assess the motive dimensions of the theory, and the utility of these scales to predict an array of behaviors, but this is the first study to evaluate the cross-linguistical invariance of the 15-factor theoretical model. This study evaluated translations of the English language 60-item Quick AIM in 5 samples – Croatian (N = 614), French (N = 246), German (N = 154), Polish (M = 314), and U.S. English (N = 490) – recruited from 4 countries (Croatia, Poland, Switzerland, and the U.S.). Exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM) supported the theoretical model on which the traits of action are based and scrutinized the measurement invariance (configural, metric, scalar invariance) of the scale across the languages.

Keywords:

AIM-Q, motivation, motive, evolutionary psychology, personality

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Bernard, L. C., Cieciuch, J., Lac, A., Žuro, B., Krupić, D., Richter, M., Silvestrini, N. ., & von Helversen, B. (2021). A cross-cultural study of purposive “traits of action”: Measurement invariance of scales based on the action–trait theory of human motivation using exploratory structural equation modeling . Studia Psychologica: Theoria Et Praxis, 21(1), 5–29. https://doi.org/10.21697/sp.2021.21.1.01

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