FACTOR ANALYSİS FOR CONSTRUCT VALİDİTY: AN APPLİED STUDY

In this article, the 19-item information dimension of scale, originally named "Sustainability Consciousness Questionnaire", was developed by Michalos, Creech, Swayze, Kahlke, Buckler & Rempel (2012) and updated Gericke, Pauw, Berlung Olsson (2018), whose factor structure previously revealed. (latent variable) Construct validity tested applying it to a new data set 307 people. IBM SPSS AMOS statistical package programs were used in analysis data. According results obtained study; It found that scale gathered under three factors as original could explain 61.72% total variance. As result reliability analysis, determined had high level according Cronbach's-α coefficient (Cronbach's-α =0.923). confirmatory improvement goodness fit coefficients examined controlling modification indices. addition, path how much 19 items belonging first predict latent variable are all significant. Among items, 13th 14th most effect (β1= 0.828, p