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  • Psychology
  • Moral Psychology
  • Social Psychology

Background:

  • Assessing moral values efficiently is crucial in moral psychology.
  • Limited validated, time-efficient measures exist for Moral Foundations Theory.
  • The 90-item Moral Foundations Vignettes (MFV) is a comprehensive but lengthy scale.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate abbreviated versions of the Moral Foundations Vignettes (MFV).
  • To create shorter scales that maintain the psychometric properties of the full MFV.
  • To provide researchers with a time-efficient tool for assessing moral values within Moral Foundations Theory.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a genetic algorithm (GA) approach to construct abbreviated scales.
  • Developed 36-item and 18-item versions of the MFV.
  • Validated the abbreviated scales across two large samples (N=1336) of Australian and American participants.

Main Results:

  • The 36- and 18-item MFV versions showed close correspondence with the full 90-item scale.
  • Abbreviated versions demonstrated adequate reliability, predictive validity, and factor-analytic fit.
  • Reduced scale length with minimal loss of information was achieved.

Conclusions:

  • Abbreviated MFV scales offer a time-efficient and psychometrically sound alternative to the full version.
  • These shorter scales facilitate broader research applications in moral psychology.
  • The genetic algorithm approach proved effective for scale reduction while preserving validity.