A translation and validation of the Perceived Political Self-Efficacy (P-PSE) Scale for the use in German samples

Abstract: Caprara et al. (European Journal of Social Psychology 39:1002–1020, 2009) criticized existing measures of internal political efficacy for not taking into account psychological theories of self-efficacy and for the resulting low construct validity. As an alternative, they presented a ten-item measure called Perceived Political Self-Efficacy (P-PSE) Scale. Based on social cognitive theory, it adopts a psychological understanding of self-efficacy and captures the phenomenon in a more systematic and complete manner than previous measures of internal efficacy. We translated the P-PSE scale to German and tested it in a German national quota sample, using quotas for age, gender and education (N = 1025). We provided evidence on the scale’s construct validity (by testing its correlations towards related constructs) and on its criterion validity (by regressing political participation propensity on the P-PSE score). The scale explained ΔR2 = 26% of people’s propensity for political participat

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences (2020) ; 1-10

Klassifikation
Politik

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Mannheim
(wer)
SSOAR - Social Science Open Access Repository
(wann)
2020
Urheber
Bromme, Laurits
Rothmund, Tobias
Caprara, Gian Vittorio

DOI
10.1186/s42409-020-00013-4
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021042717051186480085
Rechteinformation
Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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25.03.2025, 13:51 MEZ

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Beteiligte

  • Bromme, Laurits
  • Rothmund, Tobias
  • Caprara, Gian Vittorio
  • SSOAR - Social Science Open Access Repository

Entstanden

  • 2020

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