Leadership: Validation of a Self-Report Scale: Comment on Dussault, Frenette, and Fernet (2013). Issue 2 (October 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Chakrabarty, Subhra
• Is Part Of: Psychological reports. Volume 115:Issue 2(2014)
• Page Start: 415
• Page End: 418
• Publication Date: 2014-10
• Subjects: Psychology -- Periodicals; Psychiatry; Psychology; Psychologie -- Périodiques; Psychology; 150.5
• DOI: 10.2466/01.08.PR0.115c24z6
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0033-2941

Abstract

In a recent study, Dussault, Frenette, and Fernet (2013) developed a 21-item self-report instrument to measure leadership based on Bass's (1985) transformational/transactional leadership paradigm. The final specification included a third-order dimension (leadership), two second-order dimensions (transactional leadership and transformational leadership), and a first-order dimension ( laissezfaire leadership). This note focuses on the need for assessing convergent and discriminant validity of the scale, and on ruling out the potential for common method bias.