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The General Environment Fit Scale: A Factor Analysis and Test of Convergent Construct Validity
Author(s) -
Beasley Christopher R.,
Jason Leonard A.,
Miller Steven A.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1007/s10464-011-9480-8
Subject(s) - construct validity , convergent validity , construct (python library) , psychology , confirmatory factor analysis , health psychology , scale (ratio) , social psychology , test (biology) , similarity (geometry) , convention , applied psychology , structural equation modeling , psychometrics , public health , clinical psychology , sociology , computer science , statistics , mathematics , social science , internal consistency , nursing , medicine , artificial intelligence , image (mathematics) , biology , paleontology , quantum mechanics , programming language , physics
Person‐environment fit (P‐E fit) was initially espoused as an important construct in the field of community psychology; however, most of the theoretical and empirical development of the construct has been conducted by the industrial/organizational (I/O) psychologists and business management fields. In the current study, the GEFS—a P‐E fit measure that was developed from organizational perspectives on fit—was administered to 246 attendees of an annual convention for residents and alumni of Oxford House, a network of over 1,400 mutual‐help addiction recovery homes. The authors conducted confirmatory factor and convergent construct validity analyses with the GEFS. The results suggested that the theoretical factor structure of the measure adequately fit the data and provided limited support for the measure's validity. Sufficient supply of resident needs by the Oxford House and similarity between residents and their housemates predicted satisfaction with the recovery home, but only perceived similarity to housemates predicted how long residents intended to stay in the Oxford Houses.