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The purpose of this research is to develop the Identity Attitudes Scale (IAS), for measuring the attitudes toward collective identities. Five dimensions of collective identity (gender, national, ethnic, politic and religious identities) were studied in the study. The IAS was applied to 452 teacher candidates, then validity and reliability studies were carried out on the data. According to exploratory analysis, the scale has 28 items and a five-factor structure which explains 48.58% of the variance for IAS. It is approximately found that the factor loading values were between .39-.81. This factorial structure was also tested through confirmatory analysis, which confirmed the five-factor structure. The fit index values were as follows: RMSEA = .044, GFI = .91, CFI = .96, NFI =.91, RFI = .91, AGFI = .89, IFI = .96 and NNFI = .95. In addition, the alpha reliability coefficient was found to be .85. Additionally, the dimensions of the scale correlated with each other and the total score. These results prove that the scale is a valid and reliable data collection instrument for measuring identical attitudes.

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