Factor Structure and Internal Consistency of a Factor Structure and Internal Consistency of a Moral Identity Scale

Subject Areas : روان‌شناسی تحولی

Zohreh Majdabadi ¹

1 - PhD Assistant Professor Payame-Noor University

Received: 2018-04-07 Accepted : 2018-04-07 Published : 2017-12-22

Keywords: factor structure, internal consistency, moral identity,

Abstract :

the aim of this study was to test the factor structure and internal consistency of the 10-item moral identity of (Aquino & Reed, 2002) based on moral traits of an Iranian sample of college students. The sample consisted of 429 students (313 females, 111 males, 5 not reported). The exploratory factor analysis identified two factors accounting for 50.41% of the variance: Symbolization (34.67%) and internalization (15.74%). Internal consistency of the symbolization and internalization factors were 75% and 61%, respectively. The confirmatory factor analysis results indicated that the two factor model fitted the data better than one factor model.

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