Ethical Unconcern Scale: Construction and Validation

Antonia Delistavrou () and Irene Tilikidou
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Antonia Delistavrou: Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Postal: P.O. Box 141, 57400, Greece

International Conference on Economic Sciences and Business Administration, 2014, vol. 1, issue 1, 104-113

Abstract: Presents the development procedure of an Ethical Unconcern (EthU) scale. The procedure included literature search, brainstorming and discussion groups to generate the pool of the initial 99 items. A student survey was conducted to refine the measure. Item analysis and reliability assessment resulted in an initial scale of 25 items. A consumer survey was conducted in the urban area of Thessaloniki, Greece, in order to test the initial EthU scale. Item-to-total correlation and alpha-if-item deleted were applied in the consumer sample and the results indicated that all items obtained coefficients greater than 0.30. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) followed by the employment of PCA. Five factors with eigenvalues greater than 1 were found to explain 61.34% of the variance. Four items (two with a factor loading

Keywords: Ethical Consumption; Ethical Unconcern; Measure Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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