A psychometric investigation of the MACH IV scaele developed by Christie and Geis in 1970 to measure Machiavellianism was conducted. Factor analyses performed on data from two different samples of respondents suggest empirical difficulties in the number and nature of dimensions underlying the scale. Comparable analyses of a Satisfaction scale developed by Hunt and Chonko in 1984 and administered at the same time to the same subjects as the MACH IV scale indicated no similar difficulties with the Satisfaction scale's empirical validity.
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