Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Factorial Invariance of the Mechanisms of the Moral Disengagement Scale

Autor: Anyerson S. Gómez-Tabares, César Nuñez, Andrés M. Grisales-Aguirre, Gastón Zapata-Lesmes, Olber E Arango-Tobón
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Anuario de Psicología Jurídica, Vol 34, Iss 1, Pp 75-84 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1133-0740
2174-0542
31279473
DOI: 10.5093/apj2023a10
Popis: The objective of this paper was to analyze the factorial structure, psychometric characteristics, and factorial invariance by sex, age, and city of the Mechanisms of Moral Disengagement Scale in young university students. A total of 1,431 young people between the ages of 18 and 30 (M = 20.86, SD = 3.64) from two Colombian cities participated in the study. A confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to test four hypothesized models. The CFA confirmed a first-order factor structure grouping the eight mechanisms of moral disengagement (Model 4), which explained 54.17% of the total variance. The final model obtained a good fit, χ2 = 12.514, RMSEA = .010, TLI = .999, AGFI = .993, CFI = 1.00, ECVI = .044, CMIN/df = 1.138. Factorial invariance by sex, age and city of the final proposed model was confirmed. Moral disengagement mechanisms were negatively correlated with empathy and prosocial tendencies. It is concluded that this scale is valid and reliable to assess moral disengagement in Colombian youth.
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