Validation of the civsc activity scale
Journal Title: Вісник Національного технічного університету України “Київський політехнічний інститут”. Політологія. Соціологія. Право. - Year 2016, Vol 3, Issue
Abstract
The article describes results of the factorial, criterion, and construct validation of the Civic activity scale, which is a part of a sociological test “Types of political culture”. Additionally, it verifies compliance of the scale with requirements of sociological testing that include briefness, focus on studying of a social phenomenon and diagnostic potential. Factor validity was assessed by confirmatory factor analysis both for original results (5 possible response options) and its recode variant (3 possible response options). It confirmed factor structure of the scale for the both variants (original: RMSEA = 0.068, CFI = 0.984, TLI = 0.973; recode: RMSEA = 0.055, CFI = 0.982, TLI = 0.969). Criterion validation is based on questions that describe behavior or objective statuses of respondents that is related to civic activity. It shows theoretically expected differences between different social groups of respondents and in this way speaks in favor of criterion validity of the scale. Construct validity is confirmed by differences in a number of civic active respondents between social groups with dissimilar social attitudes that is associated with contents of the scale. Author defines the scale as sociological test on the basis of three arguments. At first the scale is very brief so it could be used in survey research with large questionnaires. Secondly it focuses on studying of a social phenomenon that is very important in nowadays social life. Finally, it brings a lot of diagnostic potential for analyzing of social processes in contemporary Ukraine.
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С. С. Дембицкий
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