Communication cannot be successful without the
cooperative listening response of an auditor. Auditors must
feel empowered to act as agents of change or their decisions
and actions cannot be influenced by the discourse. Their
every response depends upon their ability to perceive
themselves as potential mediators of change.
A review of the literature supports the notion that
women auditors are affected by biological, social,
historical, and psychological forces which serve to inform
their ability to perceive themselves as agents of change.
In many instances, their lack of perceived personal power is
apparent.
The purpose of this study was to construct and analyze
an instrument developed for the purpose of measuring
perceived personal power. The instrument was designed and
validated through a Delphi process. The questionnaire
contained thirty-six (36) items, with a four-point Likert
type scale used to indicate the respondent's attitude.
Questions were completed by 300 randomly selected female
students at Oregon State University. The mean age of the
respondents was twenty years, 34 percent were married and
the mean years of university classwork completed was 2.4
years.
The Hoyt-Stunkard method was used to assess
reliability. The computed reliability coefficient was
0.948. An R-mode factor analysis was utilized by clustering
items--acting as a tool for determining construct validity
through the extraction of common factor variances, showing
the highly correlated items which share variance. Five
factors were extracted through use of a varimax rotation of
the factor matrix loadings. Thirty-five (35) of the thirty-six
(36) instrument items were clustered on one of the five
factors.
Based on the results, it is reasonable to believe that
the Perceived Personal Power Inventory developed for this
study is reliable and valid when used with the population
from which the population was drawn. / Graduation date: 1993
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ORGSU/oai:ir.library.oregonstate.edu:1957/36810 |
| Date | 15 April 1993 |
| Creators | Bushnell, Bobette |
| Contributors | Courtney, E. Wayne |
| Source Sets | Oregon State University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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