Revision of manipulation tactics scale and its reliability and validity in college students / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

Objective To revise the manipulation tactics scale (MTS) and examine its reliability and validity. Methods 583 college students were assessed with MTS. Results ①Through item analysis and explore factor analysis, the revised MTS contained 24 items and 6 subscales which could explain 64.559% of the total variances. ②The results of confirmatory factor analysis showed that the revised MTS had good construct validities. By means of personality traits and social relationship as criteria, the results suggested the criteria incidental validity were sound. ③The Cronbach' s coefficients of the scales were 0.714,0.866, and test-retest reliabilities were 0.701,0.837. Conclusion The revised MTS has good reliability and validity.