Integrity Matters: Construction and Validation of an Instrument to Assess Ethical Integrity as an Attitude-Like Phenomenon
Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: This research reviews theoretical and operational concepts of integrity. After this review, an alternative theoretical and operational definition of integrity is proposed. This alternative is one that conceives of integrity in terms of high ethical concern and positive ethical consistency among thoughts, feelings, and behavioral intentions, and which conceives of integrity as more attitude-like than trait- or state-like. Utilizing this alternative conceptualization of integrity, a new label was applied (i.e. ethical integrity) and a new psychometric instrument was developed (i.e. the Ethical Integrity Scale). This dissertation reports on the initial development of the Ethical Integrity Scale and two studies aimed at validation of this instrument. Strengths, limitations, and future directions of this approach to integrity research are then discussed.
Author: Marc‐Charles Ingerson
Institution: Brigham Young University
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1427020179