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The Personal Structure of Personal Need for Structure

European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 2008
Abstract. This study investigated the responses of N = 1,789 participants to a set of 12 Likert-type items for the assessment of personal need for structure (PNS). Mixture-distribution Rasch models were used to analyze the homogeneity of the response format across items and the homogeneity of the item parameters and category parameters across persons.
Thorsten Meiser, Maya Machunsky
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Personal Need for Structure and Attitudes Toward Homosexuality

The Journal of Social Psychology, 1998
The need of a sample of U.S. students to cognitively structure reality as measured by the Personal Need for Structure (PNS) Scale was examined as a predictor of attitudes toward homosexuality measured by the Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gay Men (ATLG) Scale. Significant relationships between the two constructs and strong gender differences on the ATLG
M R, Smith, R A, Gordon
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Validation of the Personal Need for Structure Scale in Chinese

Psychological Reports, 2009
To validate the Chinese version of the Personal Need for Structure Scale, questionnaires were administered to 1,418 individuals in three samples. Item-total correlations and internal consistency of the scale were acceptable. The test-retest reliability was .79.
Junqi, Shi, Lei, Wang, Yang, Chen
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Personal need for structure: Individual differences in the desire for simpler structure.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1993
Individual differences in the desire for simple structure may influence how people understand, experience, and interact with their worlds. Studies 1 and 2 revealed that the Personal Need for Structure (PNS) scale (M. Thompson, M. Naccarato, & K. Parker, 1989,1992) possesses sufficient reliability and convergent and discriminant validity. In Studies 3-5,
Steven L. Neuberg, Jason T. Newsom
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Effects of Components of Personal Need for Structure on Occupational Strain

The Journal of Social Psychology, 1996
The relationship of two elements of personal need for structure-desire for structure and negative reaction to lack of structure-to vulnerability to occupational strain was investigated. Data obtained from a questionnaire administered to female hospital personnel in Finland and analyzed with structural equation models indicated that a high personal ...
M, Kivimäki, M, Elovainio, J, Nord
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Personal Need for Structure als differenzialpsychologisches Konstrukt in der Sozialpsychologie

Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie, 2006
Zusammenfassung: Eine reliable und valide deutschsprachige Version der Personal Need for Structure (PNS)-Skala wird vorgestellt. Hierzu wurde eine Übersetzung der englischsprachigen Originalskala erstellt, welche einer Skalenanalyse unterzogen sowie anhand persönlichkeits- und sozialpsychologischer Variablen validiert wurde. Studie 1 (N = 702), in der
Maya Machunsky, Thorsten Meiser
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The prejudiced personality revisited: Personal need for structure and formation of erroneous group stereotypes.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1995
Two studies explored the relation between personal need for structure (PNS) and a reasoning process through which stereotypes may form. Participants viewed information about the performance of group members on intelligence-related tasks and then indicated their inference strategies and impressions of the groups.
Mark Schaller, Carrie Boyd, Jonathan Yohannes, Meredith O'Brien   +3 more
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Ageing-related influences on personal need for structure

International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2001
The need for structure construct was examined in relation to adult age using the Personal Need for Structure scale (PNS; M.M. Thompson, M.E. Naccarato, & K. Parker, 1989). The results of a series of confirmatory factor analyses indicated that the two intercorrelated-factor structure of the PNS scale held up well across individuals aged 21 to 85 ...
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Personal need for structure as a boundary condition for humor in leadership

Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2016
SummaryRecent research has established a positive relationship between humor in leadership and organizational behavior variables. However, neither the mechanisms nor the boundary conditions of the positive effects of humor in leadership are completely understood.
Alexander Pundt, Laura Venz
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