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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2025

Mission valence of civil servants: development and validation of a three-dimensional scale.

Xi Liu, Mengchu Zhao, Weibo Zheng

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Xi LiuCollege of Public Administration, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Mengchu ZhaoSchool of Law and Humanities, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, China.
Weibo ZhengCollege of Public Administration, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.

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Background: In the context of public service reform and sustained governance optimization, mission valence is a pivotal driver of public service behavior, yet existing measurements are predominantly unidimensional. These simplified tools often fail to capture the complex psychological process of civil servants within the organizational settings of the public sector. A multidimensional instrument is therefore essential to accurately reflect this construct. Methods and results: This study develops and validates a multidimensional mission valence scale for civil servants using a mixed-methods design. Study 1 ( Conclusion: The findings developed a psychometrically sound instrument that reconstructs civil servants' mission valence as a multidimensional process. This validated scale provides a precise tool for examining the mechanisms underlying civil servants' mission valence in public sector organizational behavior.

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civil servants' mission valencedimension explorationgrounded theorypublic sectorscale development

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