A Polish Language Version of Wood et al.’s Authenticity Scale

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dc.abstract.enBackground: There is considerable interest among personality psychologists in authenticity. To provide researchers with a tool to study dispositional authenticity among speakers of Polish, we created a Polish language version of Wood et al.’s multidimension-al measure of authenticity. Wood et al.’s measure has 12 items and measures three constructs: four items for selfalienation; authentic living; and accepting external influence. Participants and procedure: Participants were 825 Polish adults (Mage = 42.7, SD = 15.4; 50% women) who were recruited by a professional survey com-pany. Participants completed the newly developed measure of authenticity, and for validation purposes, they completed measures of Ryff’s model of well-being, self-esteem, satisfaction with life, and stress, the same measures used by Wood et al. Results: A confirmatory factor analysis found that the Polish version of the scale had the same three factors as the original meas-ure developed by Wood et al., and the loadings of the items on the factors were consistent with those presented by Wood et al. The three scales of the new measure were reliable. Moreover, relationships between the authenticity scales and the validation measures were similar to those reported by Wood et al. Conclusions: The present results suggest that our proposed Polish language version of Wood et al.’s multidimensional authenticity scale measures a similar set of constructs to those measured by the original English language scale. Therefore, we believe our new measure should be useful for researchers interested in studying dispositional authenticity among Polish language speakers.
dc.affiliationInstitute of psychology
dc.affiliationDepartment of Social Applications of New Technologies
dc.affiliationWydział Psychologii w Warszawie
dc.affiliationInstytut Psychologii
dc.contributor.authorGutral-Sutherland, Joanna
dc.contributor.authorCypryańska-Nezlek, Marzena
dc.contributor.authorNezlek, John
dc.date.access2025-12-12
dc.date.accessioned2025-12-12T08:05:18Z
dc.date.available2025-12-12T08:05:18Z
dc.date.created2024-09-16
dc.date.issued2025-12-05
dc.description.abstract<jats:sec><jats:title>Background</jats:title><jats:p>There is considerable interest among personality psychologists in authenticity. To provide researchers with a tool to study dispositional authenticity among speakers of Polish, we created a Polish language version of Wood et al.’s multidimension-al measure of authenticity. Wood et al.’s measure has 12 items and measures three constructs: four items for selfalienation; authentic living; and accepting external influence.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Participants and procedure</jats:title><jats:p>Participants were 825 Polish adults (Mage = 42.7, SD = 15.4; 50% women) who were recruited by a professional survey com-pany. Participants completed the newly developed measure of authenticity, and for validation purposes, they completed measures of Ryff’s model of well-being, self-esteem, satisfaction with life, and stress, the same measures used by Wood et al.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results</jats:title><jats:p>A confirmatory factor analysis found that the Polish version of the scale had the same three factors as the original meas-ure developed by Wood et al., and the loadings of the items on the factors were consistent with those presented by Wood et al. The three scales of the new measure were reliable. Moreover, relationships between the authenticity scales and the validation measures were similar to those reported by Wood et al.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions</jats:title><jats:p>The present results suggest that our proposed Polish language version of Wood et al.’s multidimensional authenticity scale measures a similar set of constructs to those measured by the original English language scale. Therefore, we believe our new measure should be useful for researchers interested in studying dispositional authenticity among Polish language speakers.</jats:p></jats:sec>
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dc.description.grantnumber2018/31/N/ HS6/02665
dc.description.grantnumber2019/32/T/HS6/00280
dc.description.issue4
dc.description.physical254-260
dc.description.sdgNoSDGsAreRelevantForThisPublication
dc.description.versionfinal_published
dc.description.volume13
dc.identifier.doidoi.org/10.5114/cipp/193457
dc.identifier.issn2353-4192
dc.identifier.issn2353-561X
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/2077
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationpsychologia
dc.rightsCC-BY-NC-SA
dc.rights.questionYes_rights
dc.share.articleOPEN_JOURNAL
dc.subject.enself-esteem
dc.subject.enwell-being
dc.subject.enRyff
dc.subject.enauthentic living
dc.subject.enself-alienation
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dc.titleA Polish Language Version of Wood et al.’s Authenticity Scale
dc.title.journalCurrent Issues in Personality Psychology
dc.typeJournalArticle
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