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Measurement of socially responsible consumption: Lecompte’s scale Spanish version validation

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The social and ethical issues arising from the purchase of products and services are increasingly taken into account in the consumption environment. This is what is called Social Responsible Consumption. In order to give consumers a better option, the analysis of this behavior should be of interest to companies which aim to connect with their values. One of the main problems to accomplish this goal is the complex nature of measurement and study of this matter. The aim of this essay is to justify and validate a Spanish version of Lecompte’s scale which aim is to offer a multidimensional measure of the construct. With appropriate adjustments and modifications, this scale will be validated, and, its multidimensional scope will be corroborated.

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  1. Department of Commercialization and Market Research, Universidad Loyola Andalucia, c/ Escritor Castilla Aguayo, 4, 14004, Córdoba, Spain

    José Javier Pérez-Barea, María José Montero-Simó & Rafael Araque-Padilla

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Appendices

Appendix A

Table 16 Lecompte’s scale Spanish version (2006)
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Table 17 Original Marlowe-Crowne social desirability scale (True/False) and the reduced version
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Reduced version (social desirability scale)

DS1

When I don’t know something I don’t at all mind admitting it

DS2

I always try to practice what I preach

DS3

I never resent being asked to return a favor

DS4

I have never been irked when people expressed ideas very different from my own

DS5

I have never deliberately said something that hurt someone’s feelings

DS6*

I like to gossip at times.

DS7*

There have been occasions when I took advantage of someone.

DS8*

I sometimes try to get even rather than forgive and forget

DS9*

At times I have really insisted on having things my own way

DS10*

There have been occasions when I felt like smashing things

Table 18 Descriptive statistics social desirability scale
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Table 19 SRC and SD scorer’s correlation
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Appendix C

Table 20 Constructs correlation matrix
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Pérez-Barea, J.J., Montero-Simó, M.J. & Araque-Padilla, R. Measurement of socially responsible consumption: Lecompte’s scale Spanish version validation. Int Rev Public Nonprofit Mark 12, 37–61 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12208-014-0123-2

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