Laboratoire Parisien de Psychologie Sociale (EA 4368)-Groupe de Recherche sur la Parole et la Pensée Sociale-Université Paris 8 -Vincennes-Saint-Denis, Saint Denis, France.
Université Catholique de Lille, OCeS, Ethics (EA7446), Lille, France.
PLoS One. 2021 Sep 1;16(9):e0250823. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0250823. eCollection 2021.
Since the 1970s, there has been a growing interest in how individuals appropriate scientific knowledge, which has recently been reinforced by societal issues such as vaccine releases and skepticism about global warming. Faced with the health and social consequences of the mistrust of scientific knowledge, there is an urgent need for tools to measure the acceptance or rejection of scientific knowledge, while at the same time gaining a more detailed understanding of the processes involved. This is the purpose of this article. Thus, we conducted 4 empirical studies to provide a validation of the Credibility of Science Scale from the perspective of a French population, which aims to assess the credibility that individuals attribute to science and to empirically evaluate the link that may exist between the different levels of credibility attributed to science and the social representations of science. Studies 1a and 1b demonstrated good structural validity, the good fidelity (homogeneity and temporal stability), and the good criterion validity of the French version of the scale. In Study 2, we observed the same psychometric qualities of the French version of the scale. We also noted a structuring of the social representation of science based on age (Factor 1) and on the credibility attributed to science (Factor 2). Our results also raise the question of possible means of intervention to promote a better perception of science.
自 20 世纪 70 年代以来，人们对个人如何掌握科学知识越来越感兴趣，最近由于疫苗发布和对全球变暖的质疑等社会问题，这一兴趣得到了加强。面对对科学知识的不信任所带来的健康和社会后果，人们迫切需要衡量接受或拒绝科学知识的工具，同时更深入地了解其中涉及的过程。本文的目的就是如此。因此，我们进行了 4 项实证研究，从法国人口的角度对科学可信度量表进行了验证，该量表旨在评估个人对科学的信任程度，并从经验上评估可能存在于赋予科学的不同可信度水平与科学的社会代表性之间的联系。研究 1a 和 1b 证明了该量表的法国版本具有良好的结构有效性、良好的保真度（同质性和时间稳定性）和良好的效标效度。在研究 2 中，我们观察到该量表的法国版本具有相同的心理测量学质量。我们还注意到，科学的社会代表性是基于年龄（因素 1）和赋予科学的可信度（因素 2）来构建的。我们的研究结果还提出了促进更好地感知科学的可能干预手段的问题。
