the moral reasoning of student athletes and athletic training students

Discriminant validity the degree to which the what we are measuring is diverges from what we
think it should be theoretically similar to. This is typically measured with a correlation. A low
correlation may mean the Decision is a discriminant to the other questions.
Table 1. Correlations for respondents’ decision choices on EAMCI
Decision 1
Decision 2
Decision 3
Decision 4a
Decision 5
Decision 1 Decision 2 Decision 3 Decision 4a Decision 5
Pearson Correlation 1 .230(**) .166(*) .229(**) .289(**)
Sig. (2-tailed) .002 .028 .002 .000
N 174 174 174 174 174
Pearson Correlation .230(**) 1 .255(**) .142 .310(**)
Sig. (2-tailed) .002 .001 .062 .000
N 174 174 174 174 174
Pearson Correlation .166(*) .255(**) 1 .116 .292(**)
Sig. (2-tailed) .028 .001 .127 .000
N 174 174 174 174 174
Pearson Correlation .229(**) .142 .116 1 .231(**)
Sig. (2-tailed) .002 .062 .127 .002
N 174 174 174 174 174
Pearson Correlation .289(**) .310(**) .292(**) .231(**) 1
Sig. (2-tailed) .000 .000 .000 .002
N 174 174 174 174 174
** Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).
* Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).
Reliability
Reliability refers to the consistency of scores. We would expect a respondent to attain the
same score regardless of where the respondent completed the EAMCI, when it was scored, and
who scored the response. For this instrument internal consistency was measured using Cronbach
alpha. For this pilot study a Cronbach alpha of .60 was found.
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