The emerging reality of a global community has led to development of a construct of global social responsibility and to a scale as described here. A sample of 219 adults assigned to four levels of social activism responded to a pool of items judged to be indicative of the construct, and a 160-person subsample provided additional data concerning social activism. The data were used in the development of a global social responsibility scale and two related scales. Internal consistency for all scales and the expected correlations between the scale and related measures (3 scales and 3 behaviors) produced evidence of validity and support for the construct.
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