Vidotto G, Romaioli D, Vicentini M
Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy.
G Ital Med Lav Ergon. 2006 Jul-Sep;28(3 Suppl 2):111-8.
Akrasia is a philosophical concept that denotes the tendency to act in contradiction with one's best judgement. This study aimed to clarify the phenomenon in psychological terms through a working construct drawn from the available philosophical and sociological literature. After redefining akrasia in terms more appropriate to cognitive science, the authors designed a self-description test suitable for measuring the latent dimensions hypothetically related to the akratic process. The questionnaire was administered to a group of 197 subjects aged between 18 and 60 years and the collected data underwent a confirmatory factorial analysis involving Structural Equations Models. The successive verification of the instrument's reliability and coherence showed the questionnaire to be a good indicator of the construct examined and confirmed that akratic behaviour--as the authors have defined it--is in fact explained by the factors which emerged.
意志薄弱是一个哲学概念，指的是做出与自己最佳判断相悖行为的倾向。本研究旨在通过从现有的哲学和社会学文献中提取的一个实用结构，从心理学角度阐明这一现象。在根据更适合认知科学的术语重新定义意志薄弱后，作者设计了一项自我描述测试，适用于测量假设与意志薄弱过程相关的潜在维度。该问卷被施测于一组197名年龄在18至60岁之间的受试者，收集到的数据进行了涉及结构方程模型的验证性因子分析。对该工具的可靠性和连贯性的后续验证表明，该问卷是所研究结构的一个良好指标，并证实了作者所定义的意志薄弱行为实际上是由所出现的因素所解释的。
