Current Proceedings on Technology

Yazarlar: Efsun Karaca, Dilek Karahoca

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Anahtar Kelimeler:Moral philosophy,Ethics,Multidimensional ethics scale,Engineering ethics. 

Özet: The purpose of this study is to test Reidenbach and Robin’s multidimensional ethics scale with all students who take the Engineering Ethics course in Bahcesehir University. The participants consist of 430 students from 7 different departments in the Engineering Faculty of the university. The Cronbach Alpha reliability test is used in order to determine the reliability of the eight-item ethics scale, and the principal component analysis is used to support the three constructs, Moral Equity, Relativism, and Contractualism. Students evaluated eight different scenarios of ethical dilemmas and answered the questions in 7-likert scale according to three specific dimensions of eight-item ethics scale for each scenario. The correlation between the answers of these three dimensions and the ethics measure and also the behavioral intent of the students is examined. As a result, the analyses showed that, all three dimensions has a relative impact on the students’ evaluation of their ethics measure and behavioral intents for all the scenarios.  

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