Journal article
Rigor in tourism research: formative and reflective construct
Annals of Tourism Research, Vol.36(4), pp.730-734
2009
Abstract
About three decades ago Peter published seminal articles on reliability (1979) and construct validity (1981) in the social sciences. ‘‘Valid measurement is the sine qua non of science’’ (1979:6) and ‘‘construct validity is a necessary condition for theory development and testing’’ (1981:133). Specifying constructs as formative or reflective is the first step in applying construct validity guidelines (Bollen and Lennox 1991; Diamontopoulos and Winklhofer 2001). Incorrectly specifying a construct can lead to Type I or Type II errors, and ‘‘inappropriate conclusions 730 Research notes and reports / Annals of Tourism Research 36 (2009) 715–734about hypothesized relationships between constructs’’ (Jarvis, MacKenzie, and Podsakoff 2003:216). A review of 1,192 consumer behavior constructs in the top four marketing journals argued that the studied articles misspecified over one in four constructs (Jarvis et al 2003)
Details
- Title
- Rigor in tourism research: formative and reflective construct
- Authors/Creators
- J. Murphy (Author/Creator)D. Olaru (Author/Creator)C. Hofacker (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Annals of Tourism Research, Vol.36(4), pp.730-734
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Number of pages
- 5
- Identifiers
- 991005543208407891
- Copyright
- Elsevier
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Do not use- Former Murdoch Business School
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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- Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
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