Table 1.
Items in the attitude scales.
Table 2.
Baseline characteristics of the study population N = 254.
Table 3.
Frequency responses to the two “attitude” scales among the study population.
Table 4.
Descriptive statistics (mean ± SD) of the different items of the attitude questionnaire.
Fig 1.
Scree plot for determining the numbers of factors extracted.
Table 5.
Factor loadings of the different items of the attitude scales: “Attitudes toward the acceptability of RCR practices” and “general attitude toward scientific misconduct”.
Fig 2.
Correlation between the scores of the “attitudes toward the acceptability of RCR practices” and the Research Misconduct Severity Score.
Fig 3.
Correlation between the scores of the “general attitudes toward scientific misconduct” and the Research Misconduct Severity Score.
Fig 4.
Correlation between the scores of the combined attitude scale and the Research Misconduct Severity Score.
Table 6.
Predictors of the attitude scales (“attitudes toward the acceptability of RCR practices”, “general attitudes toward research misconduct”, and the “combined attitude scale”).