Developing a Peace Attitude Scale for the Primary Education Department Students
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The aim of the present study is to develop a peace attitude scale that will be used to understand the peace attitude levels of the primary education program students. Firstly, based on relevant research, the peace attitude was defined within a framework. Then, the feelings and thoughts of 81 teachers / primary education program students regarding peace were acquired. Similar scales in the literature were examined and items suitable for the purpose of the present study were abstracted from these scales. A total of 24 items from these scales were found to meet various dimensions of the peace attitude but were inadequate to meet the determined sub-dimensions. A further nine more items were created by the researcher related to the missing sub-dimensions. Expert opinion was taken for the scale, which was applied to primary education program students studying at various universities. Cronbach's alpha coefficient was calculated for reliability analysis and exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were applied for validity. As a result, a scale consisting of five factors and 25 items was achieved. These 5 factors explain 47.02% of the variance of the scale. The reliability coefficient Cronbach Alpha for the scale was calculated as 0.89. The explanation of the peace attitude with this structure was supported by the relevant literature review. It is expected that the scale will contribute to similar studies.