3. Discussion of Findings
Using the data that were collected as a result of the responses from the seafarers to the “Favoritism in Ship crew management Scale”, the scale was tested for validity and reliability. To test the suitability of the data for factor analysis, Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) (sampling sufficiency statistic) and Bartlett’s Sphericity (BS) Test results were examined. The KMO value needs to be higher than 0.60, and its significance value needs to be smaller than 0.05. As a result of finding the KMO value as 0.946, it was determined that the dataset was suitable and excellent for factor analysis.
Table 2. Favoritism scale development table