Perspective-Taking of the Team

What it measures

This seven-item scale measures how much a person believes that each member of a particular team makes an effort to see issues through their teammates' eyes and weigh their views. Khan and Kalra (2022) used it in three studies on how team diversity shapes judgments of moral behavior. The items are based on Davis's (1980) nine-item perspective-taking measure, with seven of the items reworded to refer to members of a team rather than to an individual.

Response format

7-point Likert

Scale items

• Before criticizing one another, each member of the team will try to imagine how the other member would feel if the roles were reversed.
• If a member of the team is sure they are right about something, they will not waste much time listening to other team members' arguments. (r)
• Each member of the team will try to understand their teammates better by imagining how things look from their perspective.
• Each member of the team believes there are two sides to every question and tries to look at them both.
• Each member of the team will find it difficult to see things from another team member's point of view. (r)
• Each member of the team will try to look at everybody's side of the disagreement before they make a decision.
• When one team member is upset at another member of the team, they will try to put themselves in the other person's shoes for a while.

Full scale items shown. Always cite the original source when using this scale in research.

Usage notes & scoring

Alphas were .91 (Study 1), .86 (Study 2), and .85 (Study 4) (Khan and Kalra 2022, pp. 182, 184, 188); validity was not discussed. Based on seven of the nine items in Davis's (1980) perspective-taking measure, rephrased to refer to a team. Items 2 and 5 are reverse-scored. Companion measure from the same study: Persistence of the Team (ID 90465). See also Interpersonal Reactivity Index (ID 16) and Perspective-Taking of the Agent (ID 90476).

Citation

Khan, Uzma and Ajay Kalra (2022), "It’s Good to Be Different: How Diversity Impacts Judgments of Moral Behavior," Journal of Consumer Research, 49 (2), 177-201.

Keywords

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