As another illustration, we can look at the association between engaging in different activities related to EA and reporting that EAG is important for getting involved in EA. This just asks whether people have completed each activity (0 = no, 1=yes), so there’s no possible circularity in the wording.
As we can see, people who have engaged in each of the individual the activities are much more likely to report that EAG was important for them getting involved.
In addition, I created a simple ‘engagement_score’ based on the number of activities individuals had completed (0=1SD lower below the mean, 1=1SD above the mean’). We can see that the results for the engagement_score are almost identical to the results for high_engagement on the self-reported engagement scale (in black).
For more discussion of the associations between and validation of the engagement measures see our 2019 and 2020 reports.
As another illustration, we can look at the association between engaging in different activities related to EA and reporting that EAG is important for getting involved in EA. This just asks whether people have completed each activity (0 = no, 1=yes), so there’s no possible circularity in the wording.
As we can see, people who have engaged in each of the individual the activities are much more likely to report that EAG was important for them getting involved.
In addition, I created a simple ‘engagement_score’ based on the number of activities individuals had completed (0=1SD lower below the mean, 1=1SD above the mean’). We can see that the results for the engagement_score are almost identical to the results for high_engagement on the self-reported engagement scale (in black).
For more discussion of the associations between and validation of the engagement measures see our 2019 and 2020 reports.