What the Need for Closure Scale Measures and What It Does Not: Toward Differentiating Among Related Epistemic Motives
What the Need for Closure Scale Measures and What It Does Not: Toward Differentiating Among Related Epistemic Motives
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DOI：
10.1037/0022-3514.72.6.1396
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发表时间：
1997-06
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
Steven L. Neuberg;T. Judice;S. West
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作者：
Steven L. Neuberg;T. Judice;S. West
需要关闭量表（NFCS; D。M.韦伯斯特& A. W. Kruglanski，1994）被引入到评估的程度，一个人，面对一个决定或判断，希望任何答案，相比混乱和模糊。NFCS被认为是一维的，并具有足够的判别效度。我们的数据与这些概念和心理测量的说法相矛盾。作为一个一维的规模，NFCS是多余的个人需要结构规模（PNS; M。M.汤普森，M。E. Naccarato，& K. E.帕克，1989年）。当NFCS被更恰当地用作多维工具时，它的3个方面与PNS量表是多余的，第4个方面与个人对残疾的恐惧量表是多余的。M. Thompson等人，1989年）。这表明，NFCS掩盖了两个独立的认知动机之间的重要区别：偏好快速，果断的答案（非特异性关闭）和需要创建和维护简单的结构（一种形式的特定关闭）。
The Need for Closure Scale (NFCS; D. M. Webster & A. W. Kruglanski, 1994) was introduced to assess the extent to which a person, faced with a decision o r judgment, desires any answer, as compared with confusion and ambiguity. The NFCS was presented as being unidimensional and as having adequate discriminant validity. Our data contradict these conceptual and psychometric claims. As a unidimensional scale, the NFCS is redundant with the Personal Need for Structure Scale (PNS; M. M. Thompson, M. E. Naccarato, & K. E. Parker, 1989). When the NFCS is used more appropriately as a multidimensional instrument, 3 of its facets are redundant with the PNS Scale, and a 4th is redundant with the Personal Fear of Invalidity Scale (M. M. Thompson et al., 1989). It is suggested that the NFCS masks important distinctions between 2 independent epistemic motives: the preference for quick, decisive answers (nonspecific closure) and the need to create and maintain simple structures (one form o f specific closure).