Julie Strand

• Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Hi.

I am currently validating a measure on public mental illness stigma in the workforce , and have found a relatively high correlation between the two constructs: “work-related beliefs/competency” and “responsibility for having a mental illness“ and also the two constructs “work-related beliefs/competency” and “perceptions of dangerousness and unpredictability“

I am probably just not good enough to search or smart enough, but I cannot find any previous research on this relationship or any theories that can help me explain my explain this relationship. Anyone who can be off assistance?

Hi!

This might be a bit of a stupid question, but I am currently writing my master thesis. One of the things I am doing is a factor analysis on a scale developed in Canada. This scale has only been validated on the Canadian workforce (the developers have one time done a exploratory factor analysis and two times done a confirmatory factor analysis). I am doing an exploratory and a confirmatory factor analysis in the Norwegian workforce to see what factor structure I would find here, and if it is the same as in Canada. As this this only one of three things I am doing in my masters I have hypothesis for all the other findings, so my supervisor would like me to have hypothesis for the factor structure as well. Whenever I try to come up with some arguments, I always feel like I am just arguing for the same attitudes in both countries, rather than the factor structure.

My question is: How do you make a hypothesis for this where you argue for the same/a different factor structure without arguing for the same/different attitudes?

Thank you in advance! :)