Validating surrogate measures of psychological constructs: The application of construct equivalence to archival data Academic Article

abstract

• Archival data present opportunities to test important research questions. Unfortunately, archival data do not always include validated measures of the psychological constructs that may be of interest to researchers. In this article, the authors describe how the construct equivalence approach can be applied to organizational archival data to derive and empirically validate surrogate measures of psychological constructs. A step-by-step explanation of how to validate such measures, which includes the use of confirmatory factor analysis to examine the data from a multitrait-multimethod perspective, is described. This approach facilitates the use of organizational archives for research purposes.

authors

• Payne, Stephanie

published proceedings

• ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH METHODS

author list (cited authors)

• Payne, S. C., Finch, J. F., & Tremble, T. R.

citation count

• 14

complete list of authors

• Payne, SC||Finch, JF||Tremble, TR

publication date

• January 2003

publisher

• SAGE Publications  Publisher

published in

• Organizational Research Methods  Journal

keywords

• Archival Data
• Construct Equivalence
• Secondary Analysis
• Surrogate Measures

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/1094428103254455

start page

• 363

end page

• 382

volume

• 6

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1094428103254455