Dispositional resistance to change: measurement equivalence and the link to personal values across 17 nations.
The concept of dispositional resistance to change has been introduced in a series of exploratory and confirmatory analyses through which the validity of the Resistance to Change (RTC) Scale has been established (S. Oreg, 2003). However, the vast majority of participants with whom the scale was validated were from the United States. The purpose of the present work was to examine the meaningfulness of the construct and the validity of the scale across nations. Measurement equivalence analyses of data from 17 countries, representing 13 languages and 4 continents, confirmed the cross-national validity of the scale. Equivalent patterns of relationships between personal values and RTC across samples extend the nomological net of the construct and provide further evidence that dispositional resistance to change holds equivalent meanings across nations.
Oreg
Shaul
S
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel. oreg@soc.haifa.ac.il
Bayazit
Mahmut
M
Vakola
Maria
M
Arciniega
Luis
L
Armenakis
Achilles
A
Barkauskiene
Rasa
R
Bozionelos
Nikos
N
Fujimoto
Yuka
Y
González
Luis
L
Han
Jian
J
Hrebícková
Martina
M
Jimmieson
Nerina
N
Kordacová
Jana
J
Mitsuhashi
Hitoshi
H
Mlacic
Boris
B
Feric
Ivana
I
Topic
Marina Kotrla
MK
Ohly
Sandra
S
Saksvik
Per Oystein
PO
Hetland
Hilde
H
Saksvik
Ingvild
I
van Dam
Karen
K
D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D001290:Attitude; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D012945:Social Values; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires