Development and Validation of an Unethical Professional Behavior Tendencies Scale for Student Teachers

Teacher's unethical professional behaviors affect students' physical and mental health. Prevention should start with student teachers, but empirical research is lacking in China. This study surveyed over 2,000 student teachers from China to examine the psychometric properties of a student...

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Published inFrontiers in psychology Vol. 12; p. 770681
Main Authors Wang, Jing, Wang, Xin-Qiang, Li, Jia-Yuan, Zhao, Cui-Rong, Liu, Ming-Fan, Ye, Bao-Juan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 02.12.2021
Subjects
gender differences
measurement invariance
Psychology
scale development
student teachers
unethical professional behaviors
student teachers
measurement invariance
gender differences
scale development
unethical professional behaviors
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Summary:Teacher's unethical professional behaviors affect students' physical and mental health. Prevention should start with student teachers, but empirical research is lacking in China. This study surveyed over 2,000 student teachers from China to examine the psychometric properties of a student teachers' unethical professional behavior tendencies scale which revised by primary and secondary school teachers' unethical professional behavior tendencies scale. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis confirmed that a bi-factor model fit the data best. The final student teachers' unethical professional behavior tendencies scale comprised four subscales, including a general factor (unethical professional behaviors) and four special factors (perfunctory attitude and carelessness, insults and discrimination, unfairness, and using power for personal gain). The student teachers' unethical professional behavior tendencies scale correlated negatively with their professional ethical values and positively with perceived frequency of unethical professional behaviors of college teachers around them. The data supported the scale's measurement invariance across gender, and male student teachers scored significantly higher on unethical professional behavior tendencies than female student teachers. The findings suggest that the student teachers' unethical professional behavior tendencies scale is a useful instrument for assessing student teachers' unethical professional behaviors in China.
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This article was submitted to Quantitative Psychology and Measurement, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology
Reviewed by: Pedro Pechorro, University of Minho, Portugal; Yovav Eshet, Zefat Academic College, Israel
These authors have contributed equally to this work and share first authorship
Edited by: Sara Giovagnoli, University of Bologna, Italy
ISSN:1664-1078
1664-1078
DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.770681