Research Motives of Faculty in Academic STEM: Measurement Invariance of the Research Motivation Scale

Autor/inn/en	Deemer, Eric D.; Mahoney, Kevin T.; Ball, Jacqueline Hebert
Titel	Research Motives of Faculty in Academic STEM: Measurement Invariance of the Research Motivation Scale
Quelle	In: Journal of Career Assessment, 20 (2012) 2, S.182-195 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1069-0727
DOI	10.1177/1069072711420856
Schlagwörter	Research; Teacher Motivation; Personality Measures; College Faculty; Tenure; Gender Differences; Factor Analysis; Incentives; Failure; STEM Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Forschung; Fakultät; Amtszeit; Beschäftigungsdauer; Geschlechterkonflikt; Faktorenanalyse; Anreiz; STEM
Abstract	The authors examined the psychometric properties of the Research Motivation Scale (RMS) in a sample of faculty members (N = 337) in university science departments. It was hypothesized that the RMS would evidence partial measurement invariance across tenure status and noninvariance across gender, given the different sociocultural factors (e.g., gender role bias) that regulate the research behavior of men and women. Gender was thus predicted to moderate the relations between the latent RMS factors and their defining items. Results of confirmatory factor analytic testing yielded support for the hypotheses, while post hoc probing of sources of noninvariance indicated that men and women differed mostly on measures of extrinsic reward and failure avoidance. Implications for motivation measurement and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) career development are discussed. (Contains 6 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10