Description

The study constructed a measure of predisposition to help for Filipino and Chinese- Filipino firefighters. Initial subscales of the measure was proposed using Filipino psychology models and after conducting an initial exploratory factor analysis, five factors were extracted: pagkabayani (heroism), pakikiramdam (sensitivity), makapamilya (relational kinship), utang-na-loob (reciprocity), and pananagutan (social justice). Further exploratory factor analysis (EFA) maintained the content of the factors but four factors were only formed where pakikiramdam was not included. The test achieved a high reliability of .93 using cronbach’s alpha and for the factors, an alpha coefficient of .87, .93, .91, 84, and .72, respectively, were obtained. The test also showed convergent validity where the five factors are all significant and highly correlated with each other and their proximity using Joining Tree Clustering. Discriminant validity was also conducted where the subscale on pagkabayani was able to discriminate between Filipino and Chinese-Filipino firefighters. The Rasch model was used to calibrate the items on the extreme scores obtained. Based on the item mapping, 42 items resulted to be centered on the standard error. The items that were calibrated were consistent in the results of the varimax rotation of the EFA where high factor loadings were obtained.