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dataMach4: Data: Machiavellianism

Description

Likert data responses to Christie and Geiss's (1970) Mach~IV scale from Hunter, Gerbing and Boster (1982).

All Likert items assessed on a 6-point scale from 0: Strongly Disagree to 5: Strongly Agree. Variable labels, the item content, are included.

The following items should be reverse scored: m03, m04, m06, m07, m09, m10, m11, m14, m16, m17, m19

Usage

data(dataMach4)

Arguments

Format

A data table with 351 observations.

Gender, 1 column, 0:Male, 1:Female Mach IV, 20 Likert items: m01, m02, …, m20, see dataMach4_lbl for the item content.

References

Christie, R., & Geis, F. L., (1970). Studies in Machiavellianism. New York: Academic Press.

Hunter, J. E., Gerbing, D. W., and Boster, F. J. (1982). Machiavellian beliefs and personality: The construct invalidity of the Machiavellian dimension. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 43, 1293-1305.