Document Type : Call for papers in English
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Department of Education and Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.
Abstract
Background: Moral characteristics are virtues that can affect the quality of different dimensions of people's lives. For example, the role of conscientiousness as an antecedent for academic success (Kappe & Van Der Flier, 2012), better job performance (Barrick, & Mount, 1991), health-oriented behaviors (Bogg & Roberts, 2004), psychological well-being (Tanksale, 2015) and Marital satisfaction (Claxton et al., 2012) pointed out. All these research evidences indicate the adaptive function of conscientiousness in different aspects of life. also Conscientiousness is one of the most critical ethical virtues. Therefore, a tool with appropriate psychometric properties must measure this ethical background with other variables. The current research aims to determine the factor structure and psychometric properties (validity and reliability) of the conscientiousness ethics scale.
Objectives: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the conscientiousness ethics scale in a group of Shiraz University undergraduate students.
Methods: The undergraduate students in the present study were from Shiraz University in 2019-2020 academic year; 440 (221 women and 219 men) were selected by the multistage random clustering method and responded to the conscientiousness ethics scale. After entering data into the software SPSS-16, The data were randomly divided into two equal parts; Thus, to perform exploratory factor analysis, Data from the first 220 samples And confirmatory factor analysis were collected from 220 other samples.
Results: The results of exploratory factor analysis showed that conscientiousness ethics is composed of two factors, conscientiousness and trustworthiness. The confirmatory factor analysis also confirmed the two-factor structure of conscientiousness ethics. The values of Cronbach's alpha coefficients also confirmed the instrument's reliability.
Conclusion: In general, the results of this research show the efficiency of the conscientiousness ethics scale; And researchers in the field of moral psychology can use it. The preparation of this tool can lead to an increase in theoretical knowledge in the field of moral characters.
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