ABSTRACT

Kim et al. (2013) developed a four-dimensional 16-item measure of public service motivation (PSM), but it failed to achieve metric invariance across the 12 countries studied. When metric invariance is at least partially established, empirically tested antecedents and outcomes of PSM in one country can be compared with those in other countries. This study re-tests the cross-country equivalence of the international PSM measure, using the same dataset and the same processes as used in Kim et al. (2013). The result provides support for partial metric invariance of the international PSM measure across the countries when releasing only one item (APP7 or COM6) among the 16 items. It means that predictive relationships (i.e., the strength of the relationships between PSM and other variables) can be meaningfully compared among the countries: Australia, Belgium, China, Denmark, France, Italy, Korea, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the USA.

摘要

金等人。(2013) 开发了一个四维 16 项公共服务动机 (PSM) 测量方法，但未能在所研究的 12 个国家中实现度量不变性。当度量不变性至少部分确定时，可以将一个国家的 PSM 的经验检验的前因和结果与其他国家的进行比较。本研究使用与 Kim 等人相同的数据集和相同的过程重新测试了国际 PSM 测量的跨国等效性。（2013）。当仅发布 16 项中的一项（APP7 或 COM6）时，该结果为国际 PSM 度量的部分度量不变性提供了支持。这意味着预测关系（即 PSM 与其他变量之间的关系强度）可以在以下国家之间进行有意义的比较：澳大利亚、