Naslov
Metric Properties of Two Forms of the Attitudes Towards Scientists Scale

Autori
Bosnar, Ksenija ; Prot, Franjo ; Sporiš, Goran ; Prot, Sara ; Bedekovic, Andrej ;

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
24. DANI RAMIRA I ZORANA BUJASA / Jelić, Margareta ; Tomas, Jasmina - Zagreb : Odsjek za psihologiju Filozofskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu ; Hrvatsko psihološko društvo (HPD), 2019, 48-48

ISBN
0-557-67999-9

Skup
24. međunarodni psihologijski znanstveni skup: Dani Ramira i Zorana Bujasa (DRZB 2019)

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 11.04.2019. - 13.04.2019

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Pozvano predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
metric properties of two forms of the attitudes towards scientists scale

Sažetak
Past studies suggest links between science denial in specific areas of research (such as climate change and media violence effects) with negative global attitudes towards science (Lewandowsky et al., 2013 ; Nauroth et al., 2014). However, no wellvalidated measures have been developed measuring attitudes towards scientists. To address this gap in the literature, a 78- item scale of Attitudes towards Scientists (ATS) was constructed. Metric properties of the initial version of the scale suggested that the scale should be shortened (Prot, 2015). Two 28-item alternate forms of scale were formed using clustering algorithms (Prot & Prot, 2017a, 2017b). The two forms (ATS-A and ATS-B), were measured in a sample of 217 freshmen students from the Faculty of Kinesiology in Zagreb. Participants were measured four times over the course of the semester in four- to five-week intervals. In the fourth time point, attitudes towards specific scientific fields were also measured, including physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, astronomy, climate science, psychology, sociology, archeology, anthropology and kinesiology. Metric properties of ATS-A and ATS-B were determined for items and total results in four time points. The reliability of two scale forms was established by Cronbach’s coefficient of internal consistency ; all values are high, ranging from 0, 88 to 0.95. The validity of the ATS scales was examined by correlations with eleven total results in the Scale of Attitudes towards Scientific Fields and correlations with the first principal component of eleven fields assessment. Correlations with the separate total result of each field are low to medium, highest value is 0, 41 ; correlations with the first principal component are higher, ranging from 0, 30 to 0, 47. It can be concluded that both forms of the Attitudes towards Scientists scale are instruments with good metric characteristics.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Kineziologija

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