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Situational Test of Intolerance Ambiguity
L.I. Bhushan & S.B. Amal |
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paper reports about the construction and standardization of a Situational
Test of Intolerance of Ambiguity (STIA) suited for the Indian social
set-up. Interaction of two components of ambiguity (`novelty' and
`complexity') and four manifestations of intolerance accepted by
the researchers (cognitive, affective, avoidance and aggressive responses)
provides eight dimensions of intolerance of ambiguity (IA). Every
item of the test presents a common situation related to either of
the eight dimensions. Item analysis has been done by determining
discriminative power of the test items and its stability. The final
form of 40 item STIA is a balanced test of IA containing 19 negative
items to control acquiescence response bias. The test possesses high
internal consistency and temporal stability indices. Besides, evidences
have been presented in support of content, concurrent and construct
validities of the test. Separate percentile norms of the STIA based
on responses obtained from 920 college students have been worked
out for the two sex groups.
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