Publication details
Reliabilita a faktorová validita dotazníku SPARO
| Title in English | The Reliability and Factor Validity of the SPARO Questionnaire |
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | E-psychologie |
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| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.29364/epsy.391 |
| Keywords | internal consistency; factor validity; SPARO; Police of the Czech Republic; personal selection |
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| Description | In 2009, the SPARO questionnaire was one of the most used assessment methods in the Czech Republic (Urbánek, 2010), especially between psychologists in human resources, prisons, police, or the army. However, empirical evidence of its reliability and validity is missing. Using a significant sample of police officers and applicants to police, we researched the questionnaire's reliability and factor validity. About half of the scales do not have adequate internal consistency; the majority of them are not unidimensional. Factor validity is questionable, especially in the main components of the questionnaire, which are highly correlated. These correlations were also present in the original standardized samples as our and original correlation matrices do not differ. The factor structure of the two general factors items is not clear and two-dimensional. Our results do not support the use of the questionnaire in practice. It is necessary to confirm its’ predictive validity; the criterion validity is evaluated in our follow up study (Cígler & Rudá, 2021). |