Principia

Principia CC — Psychological Ownership

Principia (generated) · 2026 · Psychological Ownership — the feeling that a target of ownership (one's job or organization) is psychologically experienced as mine

Principia CC Instrument · license CC0-1.0 · calibration pending
L1-generated (PRN-157): LLM-authored from construct + design rules + public-domain exemplars; passed the item-quality linter (≥B) + anti-derivative novelty gate. NOT yet empirically calibrated (PRN-158). Design-quality gated, not yet empirically validated — reliability and validity are earned from data. Pilot it via POST /api/v1/methods/item-calibration to calibrate.

Anatomy

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Fig. Principia CC — Psychological Ownership → its items → the construct(s) they measure. Click a construct to follow it.

Measures this construct

Items

Each item shows its design grade (item-quality linter) and keying. Discrimination/difficulty appear once the instrument is calibrated on pilot data.

  1. I feel a strong connection to my organization. grade A (positive-keyed)
  2. I often think of my job as part of my identity. grade A (positive-keyed)
  3. My work feels important to me personally. grade A (positive-keyed)
  4. I care deeply about my organization's success. grade A (positive-keyed)
  5. I sometimes feel detached from my job responsibilities. grade B (reverse-keyed)
  6. I don’t always feel invested in my work. grade B (reverse-keyed)
  7. My organization feels like it belongs to someone else. grade A (reverse-keyed)
  8. I rarely think about how my work impacts me. grade A (reverse-keyed)
  9. I do not feel ownership over my projects. grade A (reverse-keyed)
  10. I feel that my ideas are valued in my role. grade A (positive-keyed)
  11. I believe that my work environment shapes my feelings. grade A (positive-keyed)

Reliability & validity

Reliability
Not recorded
Validity
Not recorded

Items measuring this instrument

No canonical survey items linked to this instrument yet. Item-level dedup (PRN-050) derives canonical items from instruments that carry sample_items[]; coverage fills as the curator enriches instrument rows with item text.

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