Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Mostafa Rastgar Agah ¹
• jalil Younesi ²
• ali delavar ³
• Peyman Hassani Abharian ⁴
• ahmad borjali ⁵

¹ assessment and evaluation, psychology and educational sciences department, Allame Tabatabai' university, Tehran, Iran

² ATU

³ allameh

⁴ associated prof. at Institute for Cognitive Science Studies

⁵ full prof. of clinical psychology at allameh tabatabai' university

Abstract

This research was performed to construct the Iranian form of moral dilemma scenarios. This form has twenty scenarios with the content of a moral dilemma. In each scenario, a hypothetical story is told, based on which the participants must make an ethical decision. This form is based on the most widely used and well-known ethical scenarios used in the world. The results of exploratory factor analysis showed that this form has four factors including a set of scenarios with personal aspect with low conflict, scenarios with personal aspect with high conflict, scenarios with impersonal aspect with low conflict, and scenarios with impersonal aspect with high conflict. The total reliability of this form was 0.72 and it is an acceptable value. In each factor reliability was 0.71, 0.61, 0.70, and 0.70, respectively. The results indicate that the psychometric properties of the Iranian form of moral dilemma scenarios allow it to be used in ethics-related researches.

Keywords

• Ethics assessment
• ethical dilemma
• ethics questionnaire
• ethical decision making