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GARCIA-VAZQUEZ, Fernanda Inéz; VALDES-CUERVO, Ángel Alberto; CARLOS-MARTINEZ, Ernesto Alonso  e  ALCANTAR-NIEBLAS, Carolina. Psychometric Properties of a Scale Measuring Moral Disengagement in Mexican Children. Act.Colom.Psicol. [online]. 2019, vol.22, n.1, pp.107-117. ISSN 0123-9155.  https://doi.org/10.14718/acp.2019.22.1.6.

The moral disengagement has negative effects for psychosocial development in childhood, which makes it necessary to have scales to evaluate it. The present study aimed to analyze the psychometric properties of the Moral Disengagement in Children Situations of Bullying (DMAE, its initials in Spanish) scale. 661 Mexican students participated from 5th grade (51%) and 6th grade (49%), 48% girls (M age = 10.51, SD = .64 years) and 52% boys (M age = 10.59, SD = .68 years). The validity (internal and concurrent), measurement invariance for both sexes and reliability of the scale were analyzed. From the results of the confirmatory factor analysis, it was inferred that the multidimensional measurement model that measures moral justification, diffusion of responsibility and attribution of blame presents a better fit to the data than the one-dimensional one. It was also found that the DMAE presents measurement invariance in both sexes and evidence of concurrent validity. It was concluded that the scale has adequate psychometric properties for the measurement of moral disengagement in Mexican children

Palavras-chave : measurement; validity; moral disengagement; moral emotions; bullying.

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