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Abstract
This study focuses on the reliability and validation of the Chinese version of the Moral Attentiveness Scale. Factor analysis confirmed that the scale includes two factors: perceptual moral attentiveness and reflective moral attentiveness. Moral attentiveness is negatively correlated with normlessness and positively associated with internalization and symbolization, moral identity, and other academic dishonesty behaviors. Reflective moral attentiveness moderated the relationship between formalism and unethical decision making. All results showed that the Chinese version of the Moral Attentiveness Scale has satisfactory psychometric properties and is a valid and reliable measurement of moral attentiveness in the Chinese population.
Funding
The project was supported by the National Philosophy and Social Sciences Foundation of China (Grant no. 16CZX062).
Notes
1 Hayes (Citation2013, p. 283) claimed that it was not necessary to mean center X and M in a model that includes their product because it does not influence the interaction between X and M. Therefore, we used the original data.
2 Hayes (Citation2013, p. 288) noted that mean centering makes the regression coefficients for X and M more meaningful. When we used mean centering, reflective moral attentiveness had no effect on unethical decision making, b = –.01, SE = .05, 95% CI [–.16, .09]. Because we focused on the moderation effect in this study, we maintained the original data in the analysis.
3 We also used perception moral attentiveness as a moderating variable to perform the moderation analysis. The results showed no moderation effect, regardless of whether the independent variable was utilitarianism or formalism.