This seven-item adjective scale measures how confident, assertive, and dominant a person feels at the present moment. Nikolova and Nenkov (2022) used it in a pretest (n = 71) for a web appendix study in research on relationship power and sequential decisions in couples' joint goal pursuits. The adjectives come from the assured-dominant octant of Wiggins, Trapnell, and Phillips's (1988) Revised Interpersonal Adjective Scales (seven of its eight items), reframed to capture how a person feels right now rather than a stable personality trait.
Unipolar adjective ratings of the extent each is felt at the moment (number of points not reported; 7 would be consistent with the article's other measures)
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Alpha was .92 (Nikolova and Nenkov 2022, web appendix, p. 21). Validity was not discussed, but participants in the high-power condition scored significantly higher than those in the low-power condition, giving some support for predictive validity. Adapted as a state measure: seven of the eight assured-dominant adjectives from the IAS-R (Wiggins, Trapnell, and Phillips 1988) are retained with unchanged wording, but respondents rate how strongly they feel each one at the moment instead of describing their personality. The number of response points was not stated. Named with a qualifier to distinguish it from Power Felt (State) (Semantic Differential) (ID 90484). See also Felt Power (State) (ID 816) and Felt Power Scale (ID 642).
Nikolova, Hristina and Gergana Y. Nenkov (2022), "We Succeeded Together, Now What: Relationship Power and Sequential Decisions in Couples' Joint Goal Pursuits," Journal of Marketing Research, 59 (2), 271-289.
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