Journal article
Direct and conceptual replications of the taxometric analysis of Type A Behavior
MP Wilmot, N Haslam, J Tian, DS Ones
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC | Published : 2019
DOI: 10.1037/pspp0000195
Abstract
We present direct and conceptual replications of the influential taxometric analysis of Type A Behavior (TAB; Strube, 1989), which reported evidence for the latent typology of the construct. Study 1, the direct replication (N = 2,373), duplicated sampling and methodological procedures of the original study, but results showed that the item indicators used in the original study lacked sufficient validity to unambiguously determine latent structure. Using improved factorial subscale indicators to further test the question, multiple taxometric procedures, in combination with parallel analyses of simulated data, failed to replicate the original typological finding. Study 2, the conceptual replic..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We are grateful to Fred Bryant for sharing data with us. We also thank Yoav Ben-Shlomo and the School of Social and Community Medicine at the University of Bristol for sharing data from the Caerphilly Prospective Study. The Caerphilly Prospective Study was undertaken by the former MRC Epidemiology Unit of South Wales and funded by the Medical Research Council of the United Kingdom. Research and preparation of this article were supported, in part, by a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the University of Minnesota, and a dissertation research grant from the Society for Multivariate Experimental Psychology, both to Michael P. Wilmot.