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- Title
Development and validation of the counterscript driver questionnaire (CSD-14).
- Authors
Rinn, Robin; Stamov Roßnagel, Christian; Lal, Thomas Navin
- Abstract
Transactional Analysis assumes that subjective beliefs drive people to act 'counter scripts' acquired in childhood in interactions with significant others and that are associated with negative emotions. Those counterscript drivers motivate compensatory behaviors that offset adverse emotions. Given the lack of a theory-based, empirically validated instrument to assess counterscript drivers, we constructed in two studies a 14-item counterscript driver questionnaire. In Study 1 (N = 302) we developed from an initial pool of 144 driver statements in collaboration with 15 subject-matter experts a four factor driver solution via exploratory factor analysis approach. In Study 2 (N = 195), we validated the four factor structure of the drivers via confirmatory factor analysis approach. We then examined predictive validity by regressing the final Driver subscales on the Contingencies of Self-Worth scale (CSW Crocker et al. 2003) and the Dysfunctional Attitude Scale (DAS-A-17; De Graaf et al. 2009). Altogether, the questionnaire has acceptable to good psychometric properties and the four subscales representing the drives to "Try Hard", "Be Perfect", "Distrust Other People", and to "Stay Positive" explaining 18–39% of the variance of the external constructs. The Counterscript Driver questionnaire (CSD-14) may be used in various fields of psychology.
- Subjects
PREDICTIVE validity; TRANSACTIONAL analysis; EXPLORATORY factor analysis; PSYCHOMETRICS; CONFIRMATORY factor analysis; FACTOR structure
- Publication
Current Psychology, 2023, Vol 42, Issue 19, p15967
- ISSN
1046-1310
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12144-019-00470-z