Applying D. Buss Questionnaire "Events and Behaviors Affecting Status and Reputation"in the Russian Sample

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Abstract

The article presents the results of a study that involved D. Buss questionnaire "Events and Facts Affecting the Status and Reputation", which is designed to measure various manifestations of status and predict development of tactics and strategies of the status behavior that is aimed at gaining and maintaining the individual's position in a hierarchically organized structure of the society. The main aim of the study was to adapt D.Buss's questionnaire on the Russian sample with the subsequent standardization: determining the internal consistency of the subscales, comparing with the American data and evaluating the validity and reliability of the instrument.

General Information

Keywords: status behavior, status, reputation, psychodiagnostics, questionnaire, validity, reliability, cross-cultural differences

Journal rubric: Methodological Tools

Article type: scientific article

For citation: Kochetova T.V. Applying D. Buss Questionnaire "Events and Behaviors Affecting Status and Reputation"in the Russian Sample. Sotsial'naya psikhologiya i obshchestvo = Social Psychology and Society, 2011. Vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 138–148. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Information About the Authors

Tatiana V. Kochetova, PhD in Psychology, Associate Professor at the Chair of Management Psychology, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0746-680X, e-mail: kochetovatv@gmail.com

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