Abstract
The objectives of this study were to investigate the replicability, construct equivalence, item bias and reliability of the Social Axioms Survey (SAS) in the South African Police Service (SAPS). A cross-sectional survey design was used. the participants consisted of applicants who had applied for jobs in the SAPS (n = 1535), and the SAS was administered to them. An exploratory factor analysis utilising target rotation applied to all 60 items of the SAS revealed four interpretable factors (Social Cynicism, reward for Application, Fate Control, and Spirituality/religiosity). Values of tucker’s phi higher than 0,90 were found for seven language groups (Zulu, Sotho, Tswana, Swati, Tsonga, Venda and Pedi). Analyses of variance found that item bias was not a major disturbance. Unacceptable alpha values were found for some of the scales of the SAS.
Highlights
The objectives of this study were to investigate the replicability, construct equivalence, item bias and reliability of the Social Axioms Survey (SAS) in the South African Police Service (SAPS)
Culture has traditionally been defined in terms of values (Bond, Leung, Au, Tong & Chemonges-Nielson, 2004), and the attempts of social scientists to incorporate culturally distinctive values into measurements have resulted in the mapping of the value universe (Bond et al, 2004; Leung & Bond, 2004)
The study population consisted of applicants (N = 1 535) who were recruited for the basic training programme for the SAPS
Summary
The objectives of this study were to investigate the replicability, construct equivalence, item bias and reliability of the Social Axioms Survey (SAS) in the South African Police Service (SAPS). Culture has traditionally been defined in terms of values (Bond, Leung, Au, Tong & Chemonges-Nielson, 2004), and the attempts of social scientists to incorporate culturally distinctive values into measurements have resulted in the mapping of the value universe (Bond et al, 2004; Leung & Bond, 2004). Because the structure of a value is fairly similar to that of a belief, and values assume the form of “A is good/desirable/important” (A is a value and its importance is determined by the importance or desirability that people attach to it), certain researchers have regarded a value as an evaluative belief (Leung & Bond, 2004; Leung et al, 2002)
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