Adapting Self-Report Altruism Scaleto Measure Altruistic Behavior of Pre-service Teachers in Indonesia

Abstract

Altruistic behavior is one among other personality traits that teachers should possess but it is difficult to resist a temptation not to ask if altruism can be measured. Such has been running for decades in long lasting debate sand there a polar opposite conclusion still exists. This research was conducted to support those who claim there is a place that altruism can be measured. In particular this was directed to validate a Self -Report Altruism (SRA) scale adapted from the original altruism measure of Rushton, Chrisjohn, and Fekken (1981). Data were collected from 120 pre-service teachers of English education program and analyzed using factor analysis to ensure whether the adapted scale yielded high internal consistency and if all items were extracted from the underlying attributive constructs. The research reveals the following results (1) all items are significantly inter-correlated which shows high internal consistency (r = .920), (2) in the last validation 4 factors were extracted based on the exploratory factor analysis, (3) the concurrent validity is significantly high (r = 0.87), (4) this means the adapted SRA scale is acceptable to measure altruistic behavior of Indonesian pre-service teachers.