Development of an Australian Version of the Rational Behavior Inventory

Abstract

An Australian version of the Rational Behavior Inventory was developed by modifying 10 of the 37 scale items. Validity of the Australian version was supported by zero-order correlations in the predicted direction between scores on the inventory and on tests of self-esteem, dogmatism, and anomia for a sample of 74 Australian students in social work. The Australian version had a reliability of .70 as measured by Cronbach's alpha and coefficients of reproducibility which averaged .90 for the 11 factors in the index. No significant differences were found between the mean scores of Australian and U. S. students in social work on the Australian test or between the U. S. students on the Australian test and a sample of 47 students at Michigan State University on the original version, supporting the comparability of the tests in terms of level of scoring.