This scale measures how much a person values being looked up to, holding a position of rank or leadership, and keeping the status they have. Wang, Wang, and Jiang (2023) used it in Study 6, with 610 U.S. MTurk participants, in research on framing charitable giving as a gift. The items form the status-seeking subscale of the Fundamental Social Motives Inventory developed by Neel et al. (2016).
7-point Likert (1=strongly disagree, 7=strongly agree)
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Alpha was .84 in Study 6 (Wang, Wang, and Jiang 2023, p. 141); no validity information was provided. Stem: 'To what extent do you agree with the following statements?' Item 6 is reverse-scored. QC note: the items are reused verbatim from the status subscale of Neel et al.'s (2016) widely cited Fundamental Social Motives Inventory, with reliability drawn from the focal paper's own administration, consistent with the seminal-instrument exception; Neel et al. (2016) is recorded as a full second reference. See also Need for Social Status (ID 810) and Desire for Status Scale (ID 609).
Wang, Phyllis Xue, Yijie Wang, and Yuwei Jiang (2023), "Gift or Donation? Increase the Effectiveness of Charitable Solicitation Through Framing Charitable Giving as a Gift," Journal of Marketing, 87 (1), 133-147.
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