Readme: Descriptive data for USN Research Data Archive

Dataset generated by 
Kjell Ivar Øvergård, 
Professor at Department of Health-, Social- and Welfare Studies, Faculty of Health- and Social Sciences, University of South-Eastern Norway. 
Email: koe@usn.no, 
Telephone: 004798648233. 


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GENERAL INFORMATION
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TITLE FOR THE DATASET

- “Replication data for: People Performance Scales (PPS): A multi-company, cross-sectional psychometric assessment”

INFORMATION ON PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR COLLECTING THE DATA

- Simon Gottenborg
- EBHR AS and Inland Norway University College of Applied Sciences
- sg@ebhr.com 


DATE(S) OF DATA COLLECTION
- 2017 to 2019

GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION(S) OF DATA COLLECTION
- Norway


LANGUAGE
- Norwegian 



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FILE INFORMATION
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FOR EACH FILENAME
Replication data for Gottenborg et al 2022
- Saved in the open file format *.dat (Psykometric_Prop_PPS-R.dat) as well as *.sav format (Psykometric_Prop_PPS-R.sav) 
- Final file created: 11. October 2021
- Dat.-file created: 27. January 2022


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SHARING 
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CCBY 4.0


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METHODOLOGY
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Questionnaire distributed using email. 

- General information about the collection process:
Emails with links to an online questionnaire was sent out to all employees in Norwegian firms as part of a work environment survey. 
Respondents answered the questionnaire on a internet-connected computer (e.g. computer/mac or tablet/smartphone). 

No particular process have been used to process the data. Data handling and analysis described in the article: 

Gottenborg, S., Hoff, T., Rydstedt, L., & Øvergård, K. I. (2022) People Performance Scales (PPS): A multi?company, cross?sectional psychometric assessment. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12793

- Software used for statistical analysis presented in Gottenborg et al (2022):

IBM SPSS 28
IBM AMOS 26


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DESCRIPTION OF VARIABLES IN THE DATA SET

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The contents of the file (variables, scales, scoring etc.) is given in the additional file: “Vraiable_Description.txt”.