Splitting: Further contributions to the development of a measure

✍ Scribed by Dr. Marc B. Glassman

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 700 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(198611)42:6<895::aid-jclp2270420612>3.0.co;2-g

✦ Synopsis

This research (N = 130) attempts to cross-validate and, thereby, resolve several ambiguities in proposed splitting scale. It also argues for, and illustrates the use of, confirmatory rather than exploratory factor analytic techniques in evaluating the internal construct validity of newly proposed, theory-based measures. The results of confirmatory factor analysis fail to replicate the original factor structure. A simultaneous rather than the traditional sequential approach to internal and external construct validation is advocated and applied to the splitting items. Based upon these results, a theoretical model derived from the writings of Kohut and Kernberg is tested and found to explain adequately the empirical structure of the revised splitting scale.