This scale measures how strongly a person believes they are in control of, and responsible for, what happens in their life. Fernandes and colleagues (2022) used it, under the label internal attributions of responsibility and control, in a pilot study of 101 Prolific participants examining political identity and customer satisfaction. The items are the internal subscale of the multidimensional locus of control measure developed by Levenson and Miller (1976).
7-point Likert-type
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Alpha was .81 (Fernandes et al. 2022, Web Appendix A). A CFA with a political identity measure supported discriminant validity, as both AVEs exceeded the squared correlation between the constructs (Fornell and Larcker 1981). However, the AVE for locus of control was low (.37), which raises doubts about convergent validity. The items are used as published in the internal subscale of Levenson and Miller (1976), a widely used instrument; Fernandes et al. (2022) contribute a new administration with their own reliability and validity evidence. For Rotter's unidimensional measure see ID 388.
Fernandes, Daniel, Nailya Ordabayeva, Kyuhong Han, Jihye Jung, and Vikas Mittal (2022), "How Political Identity Shapes Customer Satisfaction," Journal of Marketing, 86 (6), 116-134.
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