University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.
Assessment. 2020 Mar;27(2):365-372. doi: 10.1177/1073191118817916. Epub 2018 Dec 31.
It has become clear that there are multiple "moralities": diverse bases that guide people's judgments of right and wrong. The widely known Moral Foundations Theory stipulates that there are at least five such moralities, measurable via questionnaire, and tends to assume that these distinct foundations are rooted deep in humanity's evolutionary past. Were this true, we should find that the structure of five foundations is cross-culturally generalizable. Such assumptions are best tested in a diverse range of global populations with no built-in Western bias. Here, we test the measurement invariance of the short-form Moral Foundations Questionnaire across 27 countries spanning the five largest continents. We find that it is difficult to specify Moral Foundations Questionnaire items in a quantitative five-factor model that will converge nonproblematically across a wide variety of populations.
很明显，存在多种“道德”：指导人们判断是非的多种基础。广为人知的道德基础理论规定，至少有五种这样的道德，可以通过问卷来衡量，并倾向于假设这些不同的基础深深地植根于人类的进化史中。如果这是真的，我们应该发现，五个基础的结构在跨文化上是普遍适用的。在没有内在西方偏见的全球各种人群中，最好通过这种假设进行测试。在这里，我们在跨越五大洲的 27 个国家中测试了简短形式的道德基础问卷的测量不变性。我们发现，很难在一个定量的五因素模型中指定道德基础问卷项目，该模型在各种人群中都不会出现问题。
