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G Vidotto1, D Romaioli, M Vicentini
1Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy. giulio.vidotto@unipd.it
Abstract:
Akrasia is a philosophical concept that denotes the tendency to act in contradiction with one's best judgement. This study aimed to clarify the phenomenon in psychological terms through a working construct drawn from the available philosophical and sociological literature. After redefining akrasia in terms more appropriate to cognitive science, the authors designed a self-description test suitable for measuring the latent dimensions hypothetically related to the akratic process. The questionnaire was administered to a group of 197 subjects aged between 18 and 60 years and the collected data underwent a confirmatory factorial analysis involving Structural Equations Models. The successive verification of the instrument's reliability and coherence showed the questionnaire to be a good indicator of the construct examined and confirmed that akratic behaviour--as the authors have defined it--is in fact explained by the factors which emerged.
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