The development of the Francis Moral Values Scales: a study among 16- to 18-year-old students taking Religious Studies at A level in the UK
This article reports on the development of scales for measuring moral values in three domains: anti-social behaviour, sex and relationships, and substance use. Students studying religion at A level in 25 schools were invited to respond to 32 Likert items that referred to a wide range of moral issues...
| Publié dans: | Journal of beliefs and values |
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| Auteurs: | ; |
| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Routledge
[2016]
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Journal of beliefs and values
Année: 2016, Volume: 37, Numéro: 3, Pages: 347-356 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Großbritannien
/ Jeunes (16-18 Jahre)
/ Science des religions
/ Matière scolaire
/ Valeur
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| RelBib Classification: | AH Pédagogie religieuse KBF Îles britanniques NCB Éthique individuelle |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Students
B Religion B Psychometrics B moral values |
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| Résumé: | This article reports on the development of scales for measuring moral values in three domains: anti-social behaviour, sex and relationships, and substance use. Students studying religion at A level in 25 schools were invited to respond to 32 Likert items that referred to a wide range of moral issues and behaviours, employing a 5-point response scale. In the first study, responses from 652 students were subject to an exploratory factor analysis, which identified three factors that explained 47% of the variance. Three summated scales were produced that had very good internal consistency reliability: the anti-social behaviour scale (seven items, Cronbach's α = .83), the sex and relationships scale (seven items, α = .84), and the substance use scale (five items, α = .87). In the second study, a repeat survey among the same schools a year later resulted in a second sample of 462 students. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the 19 items identified in the first study could be satisfactorily fitted to a model with the same three latent constructs. These constructs are recommended as a parsimonious way of assessing general moral values among adolescents. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-9362 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Journal of beliefs and values
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13617672.2016.1232568 |