Review of the Two-Order Construct of Public Service Motivation: Reflective or Formative?——Evidence Based on Data from Five Cities in Eastern and Central China
DUAN Zhezhe1,ZHOU Yicheng2,CAI Yuanqing3
1. Institute of Urban Governance,Shenzhen University 2. School of Politics & Public Administration, Soochow University 3. School of Public Management, Tsinghua University
Abstract：A construct is a phenomenon of theoretical interest, and is divided into reflective construct and formative construct. Public service motivation is a constructive or reflective construct, and there is some consensus among the academic circles that the first order of public service motivation is reflective.But there is a debate about the nature of the two order construction. It is found that the predictive ability and the degree of fit of the "first order reflective and second order reflective" conception of public service motivation in structural equation model are higher than the "first order reflective and second order formative".The direction of the relationship between public service motivation and its first-order potential variables in the context of grassroots public administration in China is from public service motivation to first-order potential variables, and public service motivation should be defined as a "first-order reflective second-order reflective" construct. In the future, researchers in public administration should carefully consider the nature of the constructs of public management and the effect of the nature of the constructs on the model.
段哲哲 周义程 蔡媛青. 公共服务动机二阶构念的再检视：反映性抑或形成性？——基于我国东中部五个城市调研证据[J]. 浙江工商大学学报, 2020, 34(3): 110-123.
DUAN Zhezhe ZHOU Yicheng CAI Yuanqing. Review of the Two-Order Construct of Public Service Motivation: Reflective or Formative?——Evidence Based on Data from Five Cities in Eastern and Central China. Journal of Zhejing Gongshang University, 2020, 34(3): 110-123.
2020, Vol. 34 
浙公网安备 33011802000512号