Abstract
To our knowledge, there are no extensive validation studies of existing ambiguity intolerance (AI) scales in the home countries of most of the participants in this study. Thus, we aimed to construct a scale for measuring overall AI that would be brief but also encompassing a wide range of behaviors that could be described as AI. Given that empirical research does not, overall, lend solid support to the AI construct multidimensionality, the scale was conceived as unidimensional. The study was conducted on 4 samples (5437 participants in total). Three samples were from the Serbian population and the fourth consisted of 4 separate subsamples that made up an international validation study of the SAIS-7 in four different languages (Serbian, Bulgarian, English, and Greek). The results of reliability, dimensionality, measurement invariance, convergent, external and incremental validity assessment suggest adequacy of the SAIS-7. The SAIS-7 is a solid brief measure of overall AI, and extensive analysis of different aspects of its functioning leads to a conclusion that this scale represents an economical measure with good content coverage that is recommendable for use.
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The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available in the OSF repository https://osf.io/qg6zx/?view_only=36abffa21925477e818684a2d9df65f3
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Notes
Although alpha was somewhat below the acceptable value, Revelle and Zinbarg (2009) argue that omega is a more accurate approximation of a scale’s reliability so we regarded the obtained reliability as satisfactory in this stage of scale construction.
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Acknowledgements
We express our gratitude to Jana Kacanikaki for the help with the translation of the scale into Greek and the Greek sample collection; Dr. Svetlina Koleva from Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” for the help with the Bulgarian translation; Dr. Kiril Kostov and New Bulgarian University for the help with the Bulgarian sample collection; Instagram user polozite_dete for the help with the Serbian sample collection.
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This study was supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia (Contract No. 451-03-9/2021-14/200165). It was conducted as a part of the project Fifty Years of the Faculty of Philosophy in Niš—Retrospectives, Practical Implications and Vision for Future Generations of Psychologists and Social Workers, at the University of Niš, Faculty of Philosophy (No. 100/1-10-6-01).
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Pedović, I., Ćirović, N. & Stošić, M. Towards a new operationalization of ambiguity intolerance: Short ambiguity intolerance scale (SAIS-7). Curr Psychol 42, 14834–14850 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02612-8
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