Table 2.

Abusive supervision measures against Hinkin’s (1998) scale development criteria

Steps of scale development	Tepper’s (2000) scale	Mitchell and Ambrose’s (2007) scale
1. Item generation
(a) Content validity assessment	Yes	Not reported. It might be so because the scale was developed from Tepper’s (2000) scale, and Tepper’s (2000) scale has content validity
(b) Number of items	15	5
(c) Item scaling	5-point Likert scale	7-point Likert scale
2. Questionnaire administration
(a) Original sample	741 workers	Sample-I: 741 workers Sample-II: 338 workers
3. Initial item reduction
(a) Exploratory Factor Analysis	Not reported	Yes
(b) Cronbach’s α	0.90	0.89
4. Confirmatory factor analysis	Yes	Yes
5. Convergent validity	Not reported	Not reported
6. Discriminant validity	Yes	Yes
7. Replication	U.S.A., Canada, China, Israel, South Korea, Belgium, India, Philippines, Portugal, Australia, Netherlands, and many others	U.S.A., China, India, Philippines, Finland, South Korea, Taiwan, U.A.E., Sweden