Tajalli Saleheh, Ashghali Farahani Mansoureh, Hamzekhani Mazlome, Shirinabadi Farahani Azam, Pourgholam Amiji Nima, Mavrinac Martina, Aliyari Roqayeh
Researcher, Nursing Care Research Center (NCRC), School of Nursing and Midwifery, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Professor, Nursing Care Research Center (NCRC), School of Nursing and Midwifery, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
J Med Ethics Hist Med. 2022 Mar 8;15:1. doi: 10.18502/jmehm.v15i1.8900. eCollection 2022.
This study aims to assess the psychometric properties of the Persian version of the Attitudes Toward Plagiarism Questionnaire (ATPQ) among Iranian medical sciences postgraduate students and faculty members. In this study, the ATPQ developed by Mavrinac et al. in 2010 was translated into Persian. After assessment of face and content validity, we distributed the ATPQ draft among 286 Iranian medical science postgraduate students and faculty members. Explanatory and confirmatory factor analysis were applied, and Cronbach's alpha was used to measure the reliability of the ATPQ. All the items of our English version of the ATPQ were approved by the developer of the original ATPQ, and two were revised in the cognitive interview. Construct validity assessment showed that three items were not seriously involved in the extracted factors. The Persian version of the ATPQ had 26 items, five factors and a Cronbach's alpha of 0.81%, and the combined value explained 38.24% of the total variance of this scale. Two new factors of "perceived control" and "attitude toward self-plagiarism" were extracted and incorporated into the Persian version. To conclude, the ATPQ is a valid, reliable, and convenient instrument to determine attitudes toward plagiarism among Iranian medical science postgraduate students and faculty members.
本研究旨在评估伊朗医学专业研究生和教职员工中波斯语版《对抄袭的态度问卷》（ATPQ）的心理测量特性。在本研究中，2010年由马夫里纳克等人编制的ATPQ被翻译成波斯语。在评估了表面效度和内容效度后，我们将ATPQ草稿分发给286名伊朗医学专业研究生和教职员工。应用了解释性和验证性因素分析，并使用克朗巴哈系数来衡量ATPQ的信度。我们英文版本的ATPQ的所有项目均得到原始ATPQ开发者的认可，并且在认知访谈中有两项进行了修订。结构效度评估表明，有三个项目未严重参与提取的因素。波斯语版的ATPQ有26个项目、五个因素，克朗巴哈系数为0.81%，组合值解释了该量表总方差的38.24%。提取了“感知控制”和“对自我抄袭的态度”这两个新因素并纳入波斯语版。总之，ATPQ是一种有效、可靠且便捷的工具，可用于确定伊朗医学专业研究生和教职员工对抄袭的态度。
