Examining the Psychometric Adequacy of the Conscientiousness Ethics Scale

Background: Moral characteristics are virtues that can affect the quality of different dimensions of people's lives. 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; ۴۴۰ (۲۲۱ women and ۲۱۹ men) were selected by the multistage random clustering method and responded to the conscientiousness ethics scale. After entering data into the software SPSS-۱۶, The data were randomly divided into two equal parts; Thus, to perform exploratory factor analysis, Data from the first ۲۲۰ samples and confirmatory factor analysis were collected from ۲۲۰ 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

کلیدواژه ها:

Conscientiousness Ethics ، Validity ، Reliability