Table 5. Descriptive statistics and reliability indicators (Study 2).
| Item | Mean | Median | SD | Skewness | Kurtosis | Item-test correlation (with item 1) |
Item-test correlation (without item 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. You have a certain morality and character, and you can’t really do much to improve it. a | 5.21 | 6.00 | 1.33 | -.60 | 2.77 | .24 | - |
| 2. Your morality and character are something about you that you can’t improve very much. a | 5.12 | 6.00 | 1.41 | -.44 | 2.19 | .73 | .73 |
| 3. No matter who you are, you can significantly improve your morality and character. | 5.21 | 6.00 | 1.41 | -.65 | 2.86 | .73 | .76 |
| 4. To be honest, you can’t really improve your morality and character. a | 5.23 | 6.00 | 1.37 | -.61 | 2.30 | .84 | .85 |
| 5. You can always substantially improve your morality and character. | 4.96 | 5.00 | 1.42 | -.29 | 2.55 | .84 | .86 |
| 6. You can improve your basic morality and character considerably. | 4.64 | 5.00 | 1.26 | -.09 | 2.53 | .78 | .82 |
a Reverse coded items.