Development and examination of personal and social responsibility behaviors scale

Abstract

In this study, "Personal and Social Responsibility Behaviors Scale (PSRB-S)" was developed in order to determine students' responsibility behaviors in accordance with "Personal and Social Responsibility" model developed by Don Hellison and students' personal and social responsibility levels were examined in terms of gender, age and years of sport practice through this scale. Pertaining to personal and social dimension of responsibility, four-category Likert type trial scale consisting of 52 items and Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) were applied to 330 high-school students. Items that did not apply as a result of the analysis were omitted from 52-item trial scale and the scale was reduced to 14 items. A final scale consisting of two factors was created. Obtained scale was applied to different 250 high-school students for Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). It has been determined that EFA and CFA results of two-factor PSRB-S and reliability and validity of internal consistency coefficients are at an acceptable level. It was not detected a significance difference in total scores of athlete students' responsibility behaviors in terms of gender and age variables while there were significant difference in their total scores of years of sport practice.