The Abbreviated Self-Leadership Questionnaire

This research develops and validates an abbreviated version of the 35-item Revised Self-Leadership Questionnaire (RSLQ), as developed by Houghton & Neck (2002). Using six major dimensions from the RSLQ, and a sample of undergraduate students, we used an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) to identify three factors believed to embody the RSLQ. The EFA produced a nine-item scale. This shortened survey was administered to a United States government agency workforce. A confirmatory factor analysis was performed using these nine items to validate our proposed Abbreviated Self-Leadership Questionnaire (ASLQ). Our analyses suggest that the nine-item ALSQ is a reliable and valid measure that inherits the nomological network of associations from the original version of the RSLQ.