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Singer, Nina ; Kreuzpointner, Ludwig ; Sommer, Monika ; Wüst, Stefan ; Kudielka, Brigitte M.

Decision-making in everyday moral conflict situations: Development and validation of a new measure

Singer, Nina , Kreuzpointner, Ludwig , Sommer, Monika, Wüst, Stefan and Kudielka, Brigitte M. (2019) Decision-making in everyday moral conflict situations: Development and validation of a new measure. PLOS ONE 14 (4), e0214747.

Date of publication of this fulltext: 03 Apr 2019 07:45
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DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.40040


Abstract

In everyday life, we are often confronted with morally conflicting social interaction situations. Therefore, the main objective of the present set of studies was the development and validation of a new measure to assess decision-making in everyday moral conflict situations. All vignettes required a decision between an altruistic versus an egoistic behavioral response alternative. In three ...

In everyday life, we are often confronted with morally conflicting social interaction situations. Therefore, the main objective of the present set of studies was the development and validation of a new measure to assess decision-making in everyday moral conflict situations. All vignettes required a decision between an altruistic versus an egoistic behavioral response alternative. In three independent surveys (N = 200), we developed a 40-items measure with preferable mean rates of altruistic decisions (Study 1), clear representation of altruistic and egoistic response classes (Study 2), unambiguousness of social closeness classifications (socially close vs. socially distant protagonists; Studies 1 and 2), and high similarity to reality ratings (Studies 1 and 2). Additionally, we developed two parallelized item sets for future use in within-subjects design studies and investigated the measurement properties of our new scale (Studies 1 and 3). Results of Rasch model analyses and classical test theory fit indices showed unidimensionality and confirmed the appropriateness of the fragmentation into two parallelized item sets. Notably, in our data, there were neither effects of social closeness nor gender on the percentage of altruistic decisions. In sum, we propose the Everyday Moral Conflict Situations (EMCS) Scale as a promising new measurement tool that may facilitate further research in different research areas due to its broad applicability.



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Item typeArticle
Journal or Publication TitlePLOS ONE
Publisher:PLOS
Place of Publication:SAN FRANCISCO
Volume:14
Number of Issue or Book Chapter:4
Page Range:e0214747
Date1 April 2019
InstitutionsMedicine > Lehrstuhl für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie
Human Sciences > Institut für Psychologie
Human Sciences > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie VII (Medizinische Psychologie, Psychologische Diagnostik und Methodenlehre) - Prof. Dr. Brigitte Kudielka
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10.1371/journal.pone.0214747DOI
KeywordsGENDER-DIFFERENCES; ALTRUISM; STRESS; DILEMMAS; NEUROSCIENCE; RESPONSES; VALIDITY; ROLES; BASES; MEN;
Dewey Decimal Classification100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology
600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine
StatusPublished
RefereedYes, this version has been refereed
Created at the University of RegensburgYes
URN of the UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-400405
Item ID40040

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