Construction and validation of a scale for assessing critical social justice attitudes

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ID21391901
AuthorsOskari Lahtinen (0000-0002-8589-5370, INVEST Flagship/Department of Psychology University of Turku Turku Finland, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume65
Issue4
Pages693-705
Publication date2024-08-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueScandinavian Journal of Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0036-5564 • E-ISSN: 1467-9450
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/sjop.13018
PMID38482728
OpenAlexW4392811556
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited21

Two large studies (combined n = 5,878) set out to construct and validate a scale for assessing critical social justice attitudes. Studies assessed the reliability, factor structure, model fit, and both convergent and divergent validity of the scale. Studies also examined the prevalence of critical social justice attitudes in different populations and the scale's correlations with other variables of interest, including well‐being variables: anxiety, depression, and happiness. Participants for Study 1 ( n = 848) were university faculty and students, as well as non‐academic adults, from Finland. Participants responded to a survey about critical social justice attitudes. Twenty one candidate items were devised for an initial item pool, on which factor analyses were conducted, resulting in a 10‐item pilot version of critical social justice attitude scales (CSJAS). Participants for Study 2 were a nationwide sample ( n = 5,030) aged 15–84 from Finland. Five new candidate items were introduced, of which two were included in the final, seven‐item, version of CSJAS. The final CSJAS scale had high reliability ( α = 0.87, ω = 0.88) and a good model fit (comparative fit index [CFI] = 0.99, TLI = 0.99, root mean square error of approximation [RMSEA] = 0.04, standardized root mean residual [SRMR] = 0.01, χ 2 (14, 5024) = 132.8 ( p d = 1.20). In both studies, CSJAS was correlated with depression, anxiety, and (lack of) happiness, but not more so than being on the political left was. The critical social justice attitude scale was successfully constructed and validated. It had good reliability and model fit

Anxiety · Construct validity · Convergent validity · Economic Justice · Happiness · Psychiatry · Psychometrics · Scale (ratio) · Statistics · Structural equation modeling · Clinical Psychology · Communication in Education and Healthcare · Counseling Practices and Supervision · Mathematics · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology

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