Volume 29, Issue 4, 2020
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.883
A Review of the Second Order Construct of Public Service Motivation: Reflective or Formative?
Abstract
The Public Service Motivation construct in different cultural contexts might differ in terms of the cause of formation. This paper attempts to reveal whether the second-order construct of public service motivation is reflective or formative. Based on the data of" Taiwan Government Bureaucratic Survey (TGBS)", we apply four algorithms to test and compare various indicators of the model to judge whether public service motivation is a second-order formative construct
or a second-order reflective construct. Results showed that: the goodness of fit of the firstorder reflective and second-order reflective construct were higher than the first-order reflective and second-order construct.
Keywords
Public service motivation, second-order construct, reflective construct, formative construct