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. 2022 Jun 30;13:817860. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.817860

TABLE 5.

Factor matrix of MFQ-items (studies 1 and 3).

Questions and items Factor loadings

Moral foundations When you decide whether something is right or wrong, to what extent are the following considerations relevant to your thinking? (1 = ‘not at all relevant’ to 6 = ‘extremely relevant’) Individualizing moral foundation
(α = 0.879)
Care/harm Whether or not someone suffered emotionally. 0.667
Whether or not someone cared for someone weak or vulnerable. 0.755
Whether or not someone was cruel. 0.762
Fairness/cheating Whether or not some people were treated differently from others. 0.737
Whether or not someone acted unfairly. 0.763
Whether or not someone was denied his or her rights. 0.764

The analysis was based on the largest sample (N = 2,379, Study 3, see Table 2). Respective analysis on the smaller subsample of Study 1 yielded a similar result. Number of factors extracted was determined based on the factor’s eigenvalues, where the eigenvalue of 1 was used as the cut-off value.