The Measurement of Public Service Motivation: 
Retrospective and Perspective

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Abstract: The Public Service Motivation is a rising theory in west modern managerial psychology, which has a history no more than 30 years since the construct was proposed, and a history only 20 years for its measurement. This article summarized the main achievement of the measurement of Public Service Motivation, which includes the developing of three forms of measuring, the reliability and the validity of its scaling, and the corresponding verification across different cultures. Reflexion was given on the theoretical construction and its statistical modeling, based on which, the revision of the scaling was summarized. Several perspectives were also point out for the future research: 1) the simultaneous measurement of multi-motive; 2) the implicit measurement of Public Service Motivation; and 3) the indigenization of the measurement of Public Service Motivation.

Key words: Public Service Motivation, measurement, retrospective, perspective

摘要： 公共服务动机理论是西方管理心理学领域的一个新兴流派，其概念的正式提出仅有20年历史。文章简要回顾了公共服务动机测量研究的发展历程，总结了测量工具信度和效度及其跨文化验证研究中出现的问题，对理论构念和模型建构中进行了反思，并总结了测量工具的几种不同修订。最后指出，公共服务动机测量在中国的发展，至少有三个方面的发展空间：1）多动机同时测量；2）内隐测量；3）测量的本土化。

关键词: 公共服务动机, 测量, 回顾, 展望

李明叶浩生. 公共服务动机测量的发展与展望[J]. 心理科学, 2012, 35(4): 932-936.

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