This research expands the study of political skill, a construct developed in North America, to
other cultures. We examine the psychometric properties of the Political Skill Inventory (PSI)
and test the measurement equivalence of the scale in a non-American context. Respondents
were 1511 employees from China, Germany, Russia, Turkey, and the United States. The
cross-cultural generalizability of the construct is established through consistent evidence of
multi-group invariance in an increasingly stringent series of analyses of mean and …

This research expands the study of political skill, a construct developed in North America, to
other cultures. We examine the psychometric properties of the Political Skill Inventory (PSI)
and test the measurement equivalence of the scale in a non-American context. Respondents
were 1511 employees from China, Germany, Russia, Turkey, and the United States. The
cross-cultural generalizability of the construct is established through consistent evidence of
multi-group invariance in an increasingly stringent series of analyses of mean and …