Adaptation and validation of the Revised Test for Need for Cognitive Closure to the Argentinian context
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https://doi.org/10.5944/rdp.v36i132.46081Keywords:
Need for Cognitive Closure, Dimensionality, Adaptation, Validation, RWA, SDOAbstract
The main objective of the present work was to adapt and validate a measure of the need for cognitive closure scale (Webster & Kruglanski, 1994) to the Argentinian context. Need for cognitive closure (NFCC) explains both the motivational aspects of decision-making and motivational properties in the process of acquiring knowledge and beliefs (Webster & Kruglanski, 1994). This concept thus concerns people’s motivations for seeking and maintaining a definitive answer to a given problem as against confusion, ambiguity, and/or uncertainty. To assess individual differences in need for cognitive closure Webster and Kruglanski (1994) developed a need for cognitive closure scale (NFCS), whose original formulation presented a unidimensional factor structure. A two factors structure (i.e., urgency tendency [seizing] and permanency tendency [freezing]) was later found by other authors (Pierro & Kruglanski, 2005). In assessing the scale’s dimensionality further, Pierro and Kruglanski (2005) developed the Revised Test for Need for Cognitive Closure (RT-NFCC). We adapted the RT-NFCC to the Argentinian context, using a non-probabilistic, intentional sample of university students from the [blinded for peer review] (N = 713). The results indicated a very good fit of the data to the two-factorial model. The level of reliability of the two factors was proven adequate.
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