Cross-cultural measurement of supervisor trustworthiness: an assessment of measurement invariance across three cultures

Wasti, S. Arzu and Tan, Hwee Hoon and Brower, Holly H. and Önder, Çetin (2007) Cross-cultural measurement of supervisor trustworthiness: an assessment of measurement invariance across three cultures. Leadership Quarterly, 18 (5). pp. 477-489. ISSN 1048-9843

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Abstract

This paper contributes to the research on supervisor trustworthiness by assessing the measurement equivalence of the trust scales developed by Mayer and Davis (1999) across three samples: U.S., Turkey and Singapore. This study found the trust scale to have poor psychometric properties across the board, rendering invariance tests inappropriate. Analysis of the antecedents of trust scales supported the metric equivalence of the integrity measure, but several items of the ability and benevolence scales appeared to be interpreted differently by respondents from collectivist-high power distant versus individualist-low power distant cultures. We advocate the formation of a multinational team of trust and leadership scholars to develop scales in which items reflect not a single culture but are more applicable both in meaning and choice of expression to many cultures.
Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: supervisor trustworthiness; cross-cultural; measurement invariance
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions: Sabancı Business School
Depositing User: Arzu S. Wasti
Date Deposited: 07 Dec 2006 02:00
Last Modified: 26 Apr 2022 08:01
URI: https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/102

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