Structural Validity Evidence for the Oxford Utilitarianism Scale Across 15 Languages
Briana Oshiro, William H.B. McAuliffe, Raymond Luong, Anabela Caetano Santos, Andrej Findor, A Kuźmińska, Anthony Lantian, Asil Ali Özdoğru, Balázs Aczél, Bojana M. Dinić, Christopher R. Chartier, Jasper Hidding, Job de Grefte, John Protzko, Mairead Shaw, Maximilian Primbs, Nicholas A. Coles, Patrícia Arriaga, Patrick S. Forscher, Savannah C Lewis, Tamás Nagy, Wieteke C. de Vries, William Jiménez‐Leal, Yansong Li, Jessica Kay Flake
Abstract
Abstract: Background: The Psychological Science Accelerator (PSA) recently completed a large-scale moral psychology study using translated versions of the Oxford Utilitarianism Scale (OUS). However, the translated versions have no validity evidence. Objective: The study investigated the structural validity evidence of the OUS across 15 translated versions and produced version-specific validity reports. Methods: We analyzed OUS data from the PSA, which was collected internationally on a centralized online questionnaire . We also collected qualitative feedback from experts for each translated version. Results: For each version, we produced version-specific psychometric reports which include the following: (1) descriptive item and demographics analyses, (2) factor structure evidence using confirmatory factor analyses, (3) measurement invariance testing across languages using multiple-group confirmatory factor analyses and alignment optimization, and (4) reliability analyses using coefficients α and ω.