Does the Courage Measure (CM) Measure Persistence Despite Fear?
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-1-2020
School
Management
Abstract
© 2020 Cises. The Courage Measure (CM) was created to measure the individual difference of courage, but recent research has suggested that the CM may instead gauge persistence despite fear (PDF). If true, then prior research using the CM would need to be reevaluated. The current article performs two studies. The first study confirms the factor structure of the reduced CM. The second study calculates the heterotrait-mono-trait (HTMT) ratio of correlations of the CM with the PDF dimension of the Multidimensional Persistence Scale (MPS). The results exceed typical cutoffs for HTMT ratios, and the average item intercorre-lations of the CM were less than the item cross-correlations of the CM with the PDF dimension. These two results support that the CM and PDF dimension measure the same construct. Future research should integrate prior findings using the CM with PDF, which provides a new and substantial theoretical basis to understand the recently developed construct.
Publication Title
TPM - Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology
Volume
27
First Page
271
Last Page
277
Recommended Citation
Howard, M.,
Murry, A.
(2020). Does the Courage Measure (CM) Measure Persistence Despite Fear?. TPM - Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology, 27, 271-277.
Available at: https://aquila.usm.edu/fac_pubs/17860