Expatriate Spouse Adjustment
Cross-culturalReliability: alpha 0.853 sample items
About this scale
A multi-item measure of expatriate spouse adjustment to the host country — general adjustment, interaction adjustment, and identity adjustment.
Sample item(s)
“I am adjusted to the food in this country”
“I am adjusted to interacting with host nationals”
“I have a clear sense of my identity in this new context”
Reliability
Reported internal consistency: alpha 0.85. As a rule of thumb, Cronbach’s α ≥ .70 is considered acceptable, ≥ .80 good, and ≥ .90 excellent for established measures.
Notes
Pair with Black & Stephens cross-cultural adjustment.
Source & citation
Lauring, J., Selmer, J., & Kubovcikova, A. (2019): Personality in context: Effective traits for expatriate managers at different levels. International Journal of Human Resource Management, Vol. 30, No. 6, pp. 1010–1035.
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