在華人關係為本的社會裡，人與人的關係連結相對緊密，個人不單需要和自身情緒共處，也常受他人的情緒所影響。情緒勒索的概念近年開始被廣泛注意及討論，然而相關的主題研究，尤其是針對華人職場文化的研究，都相當缺乏。因此，本研究以情緒勒索的三種情緒面向以及主管與同事的關係，編訂職場情緒勒索量表，旨在建立一具有信效度及實用性的測量工具。
　本量表以演繹法編訂題項，利用探索性因素分析及驗證性因素分析分別驗證其信效度；以及使用理論驗證其概念相關，以確認本量表。

In Chinese relation-oriented society, the relationship among people is relatively close. Individuals need to coexist not only with their own emotions, but also with the emotions of others. The concept of emotional blackmail has been widely discussed in recent years. However, related research in the topic, especially the research focus on Chinese workplace culture, is quite lacking. Therefore, aiming to establish a measurement tool with reliability and practicability, this study used the emotional constructs from definition and the relationship between supervisors and colleagues to compile and modify an emotional blackmail scale in the workplace.
Deductive approach was applied in developing items, and its reliability and validity are verified by exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis respectively. In addition, the concept relationship is verified by theory to confirm the scale validity.

Table of Contents
Verification Letter i
Abstract ii
摘要 iii
1. Introduction 1
2. Literature Review 6
2.1 Emotional Blackmail 6
2.2 Applications of Workplace Emotional Blackmail 9
2.3 Existing Scales 10
3. Method 16
3.1Procedure 16
3.1.2 Participants 16
3.1.3 Scale Development 18
3.1.4 Item Development and Generation 19
3.2 Content Adequacy Assessment 21
3.3 Questionnaire Administration 23
3.4 Factor analysis 24
3.5 Internal Consistency Assessment 24
3.6 Measure 24
3.7 Data Analysis 25
4. Results 27
4.1 Exploratory Factor Analysis 27
4.2 Confirmatory Factor Analysis 29
4.3 Reliability 31
4.4 Criterion Validity 31
5. Discussion 34
5.1 Contributions 34
5.2 Practical Implications 35
5.3 Limitations and Future Research Directions 37
References 39
Appendix - Questionnaire 43

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