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- Title
Development and validation of the moral disengagement in sport scale.
- Authors
Boardley, Ian D.; Kavussanu, Maria
- Abstract
A sport-specific measure of moral disengagement was developed in 2 studies. In Study 1, a 59-item questionnaire was developed and tested with 308 athletes from 5 team sports. A series of confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) testing different models suggested the model that best fitted the data had 6 first-order factors that could be represented by 1 second-order factor. Study 2 involved 305 athletes from the same 5 sports. CFA confirmed the 6-factor, second-order structure for the final 32-item measure. Results from Study 2 supported the construct validity of the scale, providing evidence for the factorial, concurrent, convergent, and discriminant validity. The Moral Disengagement in Sport Scale (MDSS) is proposed as a valid and reliable measure of moral disengagement for use in the sport context.
- Subjects
SOCIOLOGY of sports; APATHY; MORAL disengagement; ETHICS; FACTOR analysis; FACTORIAL experiment designs; PSYCHOLOGY of athletes
- Publication
Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 2007, Vol 29, Issue 5, p608
- ISSN
0895-2779
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1123/jsep.29.5.608