The Legal Consciousness Questionnaire (LCQ): Assessment of Construct and Convergent Validity

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Molotova V., Molotov A., Kashirsky D., Sabelnikova N., Gubernatorova E.

This paper presents the results of the development and preliminary assessment of the psychometric properties of the new questionnaire of legal consciousness of an individual. In addition, we give a theoretical justification for the questionnaire structure containing six subscales. One scale relates to the awareness of individuals of their constitutional rights and freedoms, enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Constitution of the Russian Federation (personal, economic, political, cultural, and social rights). The other five scales relate to the importance of constitutional rights and freedoms for the subject. The content validity of the tool was confirmed by expert assessments of professional lawyers (specialists in constitutional law), as well as by the results obtained with semi-structured interviews (N = 30). The constructive validity of the method was established using exploratory factor analysis and tested by the confirmatory factor analysis for a student sample (N = 100). We assessed converged validity on a sample of students of the Law Institute of Altai State University (N = 60).

Keywords: construct validity, convergent validity, Legal awareness of a person, degree of the significance of rights and freedoms, Legal consciousness questionnaire [LCQ]

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Advances in Natural, Human-Made, and Coupled Human-Natural Systems Research

Vol. 234: Advances in Natural, Human-Made, and Coupled Human-Natural Systems Research. Lecture Notes in Networks and System. Issue 1. , Springer, 2023.