title: Validity study of the Moral Judgment Test in Physical Education: development and preliminary validation.
abstract: Teaching ethical behavior is an aspect of physical education. The purpose of the study was to present the construction and to estimate validity of a test which assesses physical education students' moral judgment, the Moral Judgment Test in Physical Education. The sample comprised 281 male and female participants (95 in Grades 7 to 9, 92 in Grades 10 to 12, and 94 university students), who completed Lind's Moral Judgment Test and the Moral Judgment Test-PE version. The validity of the latter was assessed using four criteria of Lind's moral theory. Analysis indicated that the Moral Judgment Test-PE had adequate construct validity and correlated positively, although relatively weakly, with the original test, so the new version has sufficient construct validity to be used in physical education.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physical Education and Sport Science, Serres Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. katemou@phed-sr.auth.gr
authors.forename: Dimitrios
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chatzopoulos
authors.forename: Katerina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mouratidou
authors.forename: Sofia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Karamavrou
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001290:Attitude; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D035863:Moral Development; D009014:Morals; D010806:Physical Education and Training / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013177:Sports / Q000523:psychology; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013663:Teaching