Abstract

CEDENO ALEJANDRO, Fernando Alfonso; PORTALANZA CHAVARRIA, Cecilia Alexandra; DUQUE OLIVA, Edison Jair  and  GRUESO HINESTROZA, Merlín Patricia. Psychometric Properties of a Civic Behaviors Scale in Ecuador. Podium [online]. 2019, n.36, pp.103-118. ISSN 2588-0969.  https://doi.org/10.31095/podium.2019.36.7.

The purpose of this study is to present the psychometric properties of a Spanish version of the Civic Behavior Scale (CBS), a new instrument developed by the authors that measure the perceived civic behaviors of workers in an Organization from the perspective of their colleagues, their work team and their superior immediate boss. For this purpose, 340 workers of a Higher Education Institution in Ecuador, responded to the CBS. Confirmatory Factor analysis using structural equation modeling reveled that que questionnaire shows a high reliability (α=0.96) and convergent and discriminant validity and that can be used by researches and practitioners to assess civic behaviors in educational institution.

Keywords : Civility; Higher Education; Civic Behavior Scale; Ecuador; Civic; incivility.

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