Construction and Validity Evidences of the Workplace Moral Harassment Assessment Questionnaire (QAAMT)
Abstract
This study aimed to build and present evidence of the validity of the Workplace Harassment Assessment Questionnaire (QAAMT) to assess workplace moral harassment (AMT) in vertical descending and
horizontal manifestations. A total of 428 health professionals based in seven institutions in the State of Goiás participated in the research. The
QAAMT is composed of three scales that evaluate AMT to the worker coming from the boss, the team, and the colleague. First, each scale had 30 items in a five-point Likert format. Semantic and judge analysis (k = .95) and exploratory factorial analysis were performed using the parallel forms method. All assumptions for the presupposed analyses were fulfilled and accepted. The manager-worker AMT scale was configured as unifactorial (α = .97), the team-colleague AMT bifactorial (implicit, α = .92; explicit, α = .84), and the colleague-worker AMT three-factorial
(implicit, α = .89; explicit, α = .84; intimidating, α = .70). The QAAMT presented both apparent validity and construct evidences.
Keywords: moral harassment, scale, validation.
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