Reliability and Validity of the Turkish Version of the Moral Development Scale for Professionals
Moral development is an important element for professionals to achieve their objectives and targets. A scale that measures the moral development levels of professionals has not been encountered in Turkey. The present study was intended to adapt to Turkish the Moral Development Scale for Professional...
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| Published in: | International journal of caring sciences Vol. 9; no. 3; p. 770 |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nicosia
Professor Despina Sapountzi - Krepia Publisher of the International Journal of Caring Sciences
01-09-2016
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| Summary: | Moral development is an important element for professionals to achieve their objectives and targets. A scale that measures the moral development levels of professionals has not been encountered in Turkey. The present study was intended to adapt to Turkish the Moral Development Scale for Professionals and to access its reliability and validity. The scale was adapted to Turkish and its linguistic and content validity was assessed in this study. Moreover, the reliability of the scale was accessed by Test-Retest; the internal consistency was checked by Cronbach a, while exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were also conducted. The factor analysis applied showed that the eigenvalue of the two factors were 4.112 and 1.140 respectively. The variance percentages of the factors were 34.267% and 9.496%, respectively. The total variance explained by the factors was found to be 43.764%. The translated in Turkish Moral Development Scale's properties found to be very satisfactory indicating that the scale is a reliable and valid instrument for assessing moral development in professionals. |
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| ISSN: | 1791-5201 1792-037X |