Revised Scale for Ambiguity Tolerance: Reliability and Validity

A. P. MacDonald

481 citations0/0 files storedPsychological Reports

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Psychometric Methodologies and Testing Personality Traits and Psychology Psychological Testing and Assessment

Abstract

Increasing the 16-item Rydell-Rosen Ambiguity Tolerance Scale to 20 items raised the reliability from .64 to .86 (split-half, corrected by Spearman-Brown). The 20-item scale (AT-20) was cross-validated on a sample of 789 undergraduate students. Retest reliability was estimated at .63 ( p < .01) for a 6-mo. interval. As predicted, AT-20 related to (a) performance in a complex task, (b) the F Scale, (c) dogmatism, (d) rigidity, and (e) church attendance. The AT-20 was not affected by social desirability response bias as measured by the Marlowe-Crowne.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 481 citations exist upstream.

References

1960A new scale of social desirability independent of psychopathology.2001The Authoritarian Personality 1950The Authoritarian Personality 1962Intolerance of ambiguity as a personality variable1 1949INTOLERANCE OF AMBIGUITY AS AN EMOTIONAL AND PERCEPTUAL PERSONALITY VARIABLE

Cited by

1995Tolerance of ambiguity: A review of the concept, its measurement and applications 2004The Measurement of Curiosity As a Feeling of Deprivation 1997Adult attachment style and information processing: Individual differences in curiosity and cognitive closure.2001Interaction of social skill and general mental ability on job performance and salary.1993The Mstat-I: A New Measure of an Individual'S Tolerance for Ambiguity 2005Intolerance of Uncertainty and Intolerance of Ambiguity: Similarities and differences 2012Investment and intellect: A review and meta-analysis.1999Improving Intergroup Relations: Lessons Learned From Cooperative Learning Programs

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.