FACTOR STRUCTURE OF THE KAI QUESTIONNAIRE OF THE KIRTON ADAPTION-INNOVATION MODEL

Abstract

This paper aims at determining the factor structure of the KAI Questionnaire of the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Model on the sample of college students population. The results confirm the leading hypothesis, that is, the existence of two poles of the dimension of the KAI Adaption-Innovation Model, as well as the three-factor structure of the Kirton KAI Questionnaire on the sample of college students population. Consequently, the existence of two major factors of adaption and innovation has been established, as well as the dimensions of efficiency, originality, and conformism, into which the nine previously determined sub-factors are grouped. Given this large possibility of application in various domains of behaviour prediction, such as education and academic achievement, organisational behaviour, and the like, it would be useful, through further evaluation, to assess the structure of the KAI model on other samples of respondents in the country as well.