Marzieh Saviz; Elaheh Hejazi; Keyvan Salehi; Gholamali Afrooz
Abstract
Morality is recognized as a context and culture dependent concept and the correct measurement of morality by means of valid and appropriate instruments of the related context and culture has always been the focus of psychologists. The main purpose of this study was to develop a scale for assessing morality ...
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Morality is recognized as a context and culture dependent concept and the correct measurement of morality by means of valid and appropriate instruments of the related context and culture has always been the focus of psychologists. The main purpose of this study was to develop a scale for assessing morality in Iranian adolescents and to validate this scale. The research method was a mixed method and the design was exploratory and tool development. The research sample in the quantitative section consisted of 1823 first grade male and female students in districts 4, 2, 3, 16 and 11 of Tehran who were selected by multistage sampling.In the qualitative section after the qualitative analysis of the interviews, it was determined that Iranian adolescents define ethics in seven categories: justice, care, moral agency, moral sensitivity, moral responsibility, moral motivation, and personal values. Using qualitative findings, the moral tool was constructed and after preliminary implementation, the validity and reliability of the original sample was assessed.The content validity of the scale was confirmed by experts and with CVR index of 0.91. The criterion validity was assessed by running the Davies Empathy Questionnaire (1983) and the correlation coefficients of the two questionnaires. The construct validity was confirmed by second-order factor analysis as well as the mean variance extracted (AVE). The reliability of the instrument was confirmed by internal consistency and Cronbach's alpha coefficients (0.87) and composite reliability test for components ranged from 0.72 to 0.87. According to the results of this study, the instrument of moral development of adolescents for measuring this construct in Iranian samples has good reliability and validity.
