TITLE:
Development and Validation of the Japanese-Translated Version of the Personal Need for Structure Scale
AUTHORS:
Jun Kashihara
KEYWORDS:
Personal Need for Structure, Validation, Personality Measures, Psychometrics, Measurement
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.7 No.3,
March
30,
2016
ABSTRACT: Personal need for structure (PNS) refers to
individual differences in tendency to structure huge amounts of information
into a simplified form, and was frequently examined in previous research in
association with strategies for reducing cognitive load and with creativity.
The present research developed a new Japanese-translated version of the PNS
Scale (PNS-J) and conducted two surveys with samples of Japanese university
students to validate the PNS-J. Study 1 (N = 244) examined
internal consistency and factor structure of the PNS-J. Although the Response
to Lack of Structure subscale and the total 11 items had sufficient internal
consistency (α = .73, .76, respectively), the Desire for Structure subscale had
a smaller value for internal consistency (α = .55). Confirmatory factor
analyses showed that the two-factor model of the PNS-J fit the data better than
the one-factor model, as shown in the studies that validated the original PNS
Scale. Study 2 conducted assessments at two time points (T1 and T2) to examine
correlations between the PNS-J and other related variables, and to evaluate
test-retest reliability of the PNS-J with a 4-week interval. Analyses using the
T1 dataset (N = 354) provided convergent evidence of
validity with big-five personality traits and discriminant evidence with need
for cognition. Analyses using both the T1 and the T2 dataset (N
= 245) showed that both the Desire for Structure subscale (r = .67, p