Tendency to gossip as a personal disposition: Constructing a measure and validiating it

[examines] the reliability and validity of [the] Gossip Tendency Questionnaire (GTQ) / [also] addressed 4 specific hypotheses: there are individual differences in the tendency to gossip; . . . there is a negative relationship between social desirability and the tendency to report gossip; there are gender differences in tendency to gossip, with women tending to gossip more than men [and] those with vocational interests in people-oriented professions tend to gossip more than those with vocational interest in other fields / two samples were used / sample A was made up of 30 members of a kibbutz in northern Israel [male and female 20–30 yr olds] / sample B consisted of 120 students [aged 19–30 yrs] at the Technion and the University of Haifa
our preliminary results suggest that the tendency to gossip is a personal trait distributed normally among the population tested / the GTQ was validated . . . and we can conclude that we succeeded in operationalizing the personal tendency to gossip (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)