TABLE 5.
Factor matrix of MFQ-items (studies 1 and 3).
| Questions and items | Factor loadings | |
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| 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.