Why adopt these scales?: a systematic review of the most used scales on expatriation studies in the past ten years

• Autor(a) principal: Antunes, Filipa Morão Dias
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/18595
• topic: Measurement; Psychometric properties; Expatriation; Expatriates; Reliability; Validity; Psicometria; Medição; Escala; Mobilidade profissional

Systematic review of scales used in the expatriation field following the PRISMA guidelines. Through multiple correspondence analysis, to disclose choices of criteria, a typology of measurement scales in the past ten years (2006-2016) in terms of psychometric properties, and other descriptive criteria, was created, with the aim of assist in operational decisions of future studies, contribute to reduce the number of new scales and allow the comparison of the existing ones, besides contributing to the overall enlargement of the expatriation field. Through multiple hierarchical regression, the psychometric properties that allowed to predict a greater number of citations (total and when comparing subsequent periods) were investigated. This paper aims to identify the common constructs used on Expatriation, what are the most used scales to measure used constructs, changes in the use of scales on a time range, and to understand what are the tendencies in the thematic. It follows the protocol of previous peer-reviewed studies and adopts conceptual topics from prior expatriation studies. Its contribution is both methodological, as the first systematic review of scales in this field, but also for future researchers, in the moment of decision, answering the question “why adopt these scales?”.