Mobbing Attitude Scale (MAS): Development, Validity and Reliability
Abstract
The aim of this study is to develop a scale to determine the possible attitudes of employees towards the workplace after the mobbing. During the scale development phase was created a Likert-type pre-test form. As a result of pre- experiment applications, the draft form was formed from 78 items. The draft form prepared on the internet was e-mailed to the academic staff of 30 of the 181 universities affiliated to the Council of Higher Education (CoHE) and the data were obtained according to the returned results. 1,326 recipients of 26,431 academic staff forms were returned. 561 pieces of draft scale data that were exposed to mobbing were taken into consideration. 22 items without contribution to substance analysis were removed from the scale. The appropriateness of 56 items to factor analysis was examined and the value of Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) was obtained 0.918. When it is investigated the eigenvalues of 56 items, four factors with the highest eigenvalue are selected and the scale finally consists of 33 items. KMO value of confirmatory factor analysis was 0.907 and the result of Bartlett test was 4131,431. Cronbach Alpha internal consistency coefficient was found as 0.925 in the reliability analysis. There are four factors in the scale and it is composed of 33 items, 10 of which are positive and 23 of which are negative. The “Mobbing Attitude Scale” (MAS) developed in this research can be used to determine the attitudes of the employees towards the workplace after the mobbing. It is not only developed for academic staff, but it can also be applied to employees in other workplaces outside this profession.
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Birincil Dil
Türkçe
Konular
Ekonomi
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yayımlanma Tarihi
7 Temmuz 2017
Gönderilme Tarihi
7 Temmuz 2017
Kabul Tarihi
19 Haziran 2017
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2017 Cilt: 7 Sayı: 2