Assessing civic moral disengagement: Dimensionality and construct validity

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 504-509

  Caprara, Gian Vittorio ^a   Fida, Roberta ^a   Vecchione, Michele ^a   Tramontano, Carlo ^a   Barbaranelli, Claudio ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Civic moral disengagement; Construct validity; Social cognitive theory; Structural equation modelling; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349153722     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.04.027     Document Type: Article

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