The Authenticity Scale: Psychometric properties of a French translation and exploration of its relationships with personality and well-being.

Abstract

In this article, we examined the psychometric properties of a French translation of the Authenticity Scale created by A. M. Wood, P. A. Linley, J. Maltby, M. Baliousis, and S. Joseph (2008, The authentic personality: A theoretical and empirical conceptualization and the development of the authenticity scale, Journal of Counseling Psychology, 55, 385-399). In the first study (N ϭ 188), we assessed the reliability of this translation as well as its construct validity and discriminant validity from the Big Five personality traits. In the second study (N ϭ 437), we conducted a confirmatory factor analysis to confirm the factorial structure found in Study 1 and the factorial structure obtained by Wood et al. (2008). The results show that the psychometric properties of the French Authenticity Scale are comparable to those of the original English version. The scale has both good scale score reliability (␣ ϭ .77 to .82) and temporal stability over an 8-week period (r ϭ .54 to .69). It is based on a three-factor solution explaining 60% of the variance. The scale shows discriminant validity from the Big Five personality traits and is related to both subjective and psychological well-being. This article provides a valid and reliable instrument in French that measures dispositional authenticity and will be useful to clinicians, counselors, and researchers.

State Authenticity in Everyday Life

“…Further, the authors demonstrated the hypothesized direction of the relations among the components, as well as the direction of the relations between each component and several indicators of well‐being. Other studies have bolstered the scale's validity (Vess, Schlegel, Hicks, & Arndt, ; White & Tracey, ), cross‐cultural reliability and validity (Robinson, Lopez, Ramos, & Nartova‐Bochaver, ), and factor structure (Grégoire, Baron, Menard, & Lachance, ; White, ).…”

Psychometric evaluation of the authenticity scale on the sample of students in Serbia

“…The results of test-retest reliability in this research are low, statistically insignificant correlations which may indicate that during the 10-week period authenticity is unstable as a personality trait. Test-retest reliability of the original Authenticity Scale, as well as its adaptations, showed stability of authenticity as a personality trait during two weeks (Ilhan & Özdemir, 2013;Shamsi et al, 2012;Wood et al, 2008), and eight weeks (Grégoire et al, 2014). Also, the majority of female participants (93%) strongly influence the gender structure of the sample and might affected these results of test-retest reliability.…”

“…Internal consistency of the subscale Authentic living is acceptable and equals to α = .68 for the initial, and α = .63 for the retest measuring. Original subscales Authentic living, Accepting external influence and Self-alienation showed internal consistency as follows: .62, .67 and .79 (Wood et al, 2008), in Iranian adaptation .82, .81 and .77 (Shamsi et al, 2012), in French adaptation between .77 and .82 (Grégoire et al, 2014), and in Turkish adaptation .62, .67 and .79 (Ilhan & Özdemir, 2013). The results confirm the internal consistency of the scale.…”

“…Iranian (Shamsi, Ghamarani, Samadi, & Ahmadzadeh, 2012), Turkish (Ilhan & Özdemir, 2013) and French (Grégoire, Baron, Ménard, & Lachance, 2014) adaptation of the Authenticity Scale, each on the sample of students, showed that the instrument in question, in Iranian, Turkish and French language, is reliable and valid. To the best of our knowledge, the current study is the first aimed to evaluate psychometric properties of Serbian translation of Authenticity Scale (Wood et al, 2008).…”

Authenticity and Its Adaptive and Maladaptive Relations

“…The Authenticity Scale appears to have good psychometric properties. To the best of our knowledge, there are several adaptation of this instrument -Iranian [6], Turkish [7], French [8] and Serbian [9]. All adaptations of the Authenticity Scale showed that the instrument in question is reliable and valid.…”