Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Notre Dame, 2007. / Thesis directed by George S. Howard for the Department of Psychology. "December 2007." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 45-56).

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1956 B38 / Master of Science

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 1973. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 289-297). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.

Thesis ( Ed.D.)--Duquesne University, 2009. / Title from document title page. Abstract included in electronic submission form. Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-95) and index.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1974. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliography.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file viewed on (May 2, 2007) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

This thesis discusses a multiple-presentation scaling technique, by a somewhat modified successive interval approach. If a subject gives two or more different responses to the same stimulus in repeated presentations this may be considered as an "uncertainty" or lack of the subject's ability to discriminate between adjacent points on the rating scale. This "interval of uncertainty" is assumed to be a constant, and the scale points are estimated, on the basis of this assumption, by a least-squares technique. Analysis and explicit computational procedures have been developed for the case of two, three, and four presentations. Numerical illustrations have been added for each case. The thesis also includes a discussion on the combination of scales for different subjects if their intervals of uncertainty are different. Finally, it proposes methods of testing for bias between presentations, and a randomized procedure to correct for such bias if its presence is indicated by the test. / Master of Science

The main purpose of this study is to analyze a measurement instrument developed by Frost & Stahelski (1988) to measure French & Raven's (1959) bases of social power. The measurement instrument of a competing typology of social influence tactics (Kipnis, Schmidt, & Wilkinson, 1980) was also administered to the same managerial population (N=108). Confirmatory factor analyses using LISREL (Joreskog & Sorbom, 1986) were performed on each scale. Possible relationships between the two typologies were explored. Results include confirming a modified Frost & Stahelski scale and no confirmation of the Kipnis et al. scale. Canonical correlation yielded two dimensions where Coercive Power and Expert Power relate to Assertiveness and Rationality respectively. Exploratory factor analysis of the composite scores from both typologies yielded two factors called Positive Power and Negative Power. Implications and future research are briefly discussed.

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