DIRTY DOZEN SCALE: ADAPTATION TO TURKISH, RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY


Yaslioglu D. T., Atilgan O.

JOURNAL OF MEHMET AKIF ERSOY UNIVERSITY ECONOMICS AND ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES FACULTY, cilt.5, sa.3, ss.725-739, 2018 (ESCI) identifier

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The aim of this study is to demonstrate the reliability and validity by adapting the scale called "Dark triad dirty dozen" to Turkish Employees who were in managerial positions in any enterprise were selected as research sample. In order to test the reliability and validity of the scale in Turkish language, data collected from two different samples. The results of the exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis revealed that three factor structre was confirmed. Since there is no problem in convergent and divergent validity tests, it can be argued that the scale is reliable and valid. In other words, these findings show that the dark triad scale can be used as a reliable and valid tool to be used especially in the field of business management.