Measures of Mentoring, Department Climate, and Graduate Student Preparedness in the Responsible Conduct of Psychological Research

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Ethics Behav. 2009 May 1; 19(3): 227–252.

Published online 2009 May 13. doi: 10.1080/10508420902886726

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Table 2

MRCR Subscale Items Maintained, Factor Loadings, Means and Standard Deviations, Corrected-Item Total Correlations and Alpha If Item Deleted.

Subscale	Coeff. α	Item	Loading	Mean	SD	Corrected Item-Total Correlation	Alpha If Item Deleted
MRCR-Instruction	.95	1. Appropriate informed consent procedures.	.60	4.71	1.11	.64	.95
MRCR-Instruction		2. Avoiding plagiarism in my writing.	.57	4.56	1.22	.64	.95
		3. Preparing an Institutional Review Board (IRB) application	.51	4.45	1.30	.60	.95
		4. How to protect participant confidentiality.	.62	4.62	1.10	.67	.94
		5. When to disclose confidential information (e.g., child abuse, harm to self or others).	.73	4.42	1.25	.61	.95
		6. Data sharing with other investigators.	.74	4.10	1.36	.70	.94
		7. Financial or personal conflicts of interest that could bias my research.	.79	3.94	1.32	.71	.94
		8. Potentially harmful multiple relationships with research participants who are also the investigator's students or clients.	.76	3.99	1.28	.70	.94
		9. Federal regulations governing research.	.68	3.88	1.36	.68	.94
		10. American Psychological Association Ethics Code standards.	.67	3.86	1.32	.67	.94
		11. Ensuring participant recruitment is voluntary and non-coercive.	.63	4.73	1.21	.73	.94
		12. Prohibitions against data fabrication.	.66	4.66	1.34	.75	.94
		13. Prohibitions against data falsification.	.63	4.62	1.33	.70	.94
		14. Disguising the identities of research participants when reporting my research.	.60	4.65	1.25	.67	.94
		15. Appropriate collection and storage of data.	.57	4.64	1.29	.65	.95
		16. Accurate reporting of research expenses.	.67	4.07	1.40	.67	.94
		17. Fair and non-coercive participant incentives (i.e., cash payments, lotteries, course credit).	.62	4.78	1.13	.72	.94
		18. Debriefing procedures.	.55	4.48	1.32	.64	.95
		19. Evaluating research risks and benefits.	.69	4.63	1.22	.74	.94
MRCR-Modeling	.90	1. Had a positive influence on shaping my professional values as a researcher.	.64	4.97	1.18	.73	.89
		2. Was knowledgeable about ethics.	.58	5.05	0.92	.61	.89
		3. Conducted his/her own research ethically.	.74	5.39	0.80	.67	.89
		4. Was available to discuss questions about research ethics.	.65	5.03	1.13	.69	.89
		5. Supervised my research in an ethical manner.	.72	5.21	1.02	.72	.89
		6. Handled data ownership fairly.	.81	5.32	0.98	.69	.89
		7. Collaborated with other professionals to ensure that I received the support or training I needed to conduct my research.	.57	4.66	1.47	.59	.90
		8. Discussed authorship of publications that might emerge from my research.	.55	4.84	1.35	.59	.90
		9. Assigned (or will assign) authorship on research collaborations fairly.	.79	5.24	1.10	.65	.89
		10. Provided timely and helpful feedback on all aspects of my research project.	.69	4.88	1.30	.72	.89

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Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy: .918

Bartlett's Test of Sphericity: χ² = 2766.67, df = 300, p < .001

N = 241