Rmotivation2 {MPsychoR}

Psychometric structure of R package authors

Description

This dataset contains factor scores (person parameters) based on a 2-PL IRT model fitted on the following three scales: word design questionnaire (WDQ; task, social, and knowledge characteristics), Reinholt's motivation scale (extrinsic, intrinsic, hyrbrid), and Schwartz' value scale (universalism, power, self-direction).

Usage

data("Rmotivation2")

Format

A data frame with 764 individuals and the following 18 variables.

lists

Participation in R lists.

meet

Participation in R meetings/conferences.

npkgs

Number of packages developed/contributed.

wtask

WDQ task subscale.

wsocial

WDQ social subscale.

wknowledge

WDQ knowledge subscale.

mextrinsic

Extrinsic motivation.

mhybrid

Hybrid motivation.

mintrinsic

Intrinsic motivation.

vuniversalism

Schwartz value universalism.

vpower

Schwartz value power.

vselfdirection

Schwartz value self-direction.

gender

Gender.

phd

PhD degree.

statseduc

Education in statistics.

fulltime

Full-time vs. part-time employment.

academia

Work in acedemia.

statswork

Work in the area of statistics.

Source

Mair, P., Hofmann, E., Gruber, K., Zeileis, A., & Hornik, K. (2015) Motivation, values, and work design as drivers of participation in the R open source Project for Statistical Computing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(48), 14788-14792.

See Also

Rmotivation

Examples

data("Rmotivation2")
str(Rmotivation2)