Social mastery motivation construct validity
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to assess the construct validity of social mastery motivation by assessing short-term stability of social mastery motivation measures, convergence between different measures of social mastery motivation, and divergence between social mastery motivation and more familiar socioemotional constructs. The subjects in this study were 85 18-month-old toddlers and their parents. To assess stability and convergent validity, toddlers' social mastery motivation was measured in an observational structured play laboratory procedure and by two parent report measures. To assess divergent validity, toddler social mastery motivation was compared to security of attachment, sociability, difficultness, and object mastery motivation. Results indicated that there is significant but modest short-term stability of observational social mastery measures. Evidence for convergent validity was weak. Different measures of the same construct were neither consistently nor strongly related to each other and had different patterns of relations to nonmotivational factors. Divergent validity results support the existence of the social mastery motivation construct.
Degree
Ph.D.
Advisors
Wachs, Purdue University.
Subject Area
Developmental psychology|Social psychology
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