STRUCTURE OF ATTITUDES TOWARD ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: DEVELOPMENT OF CROSS-NATIONAL CUMULATIVE SCALES.

Autor: van der Veer, Kees, Ommundsen, Reidar, Larsen, Knud S., van Le, Hao, Krumov, Krum, Pernice, Regina E., Romans, Gerardo Pastor
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Zdroj: Psychological Reports; Jun2004 Part 1, Vol. 94 Issue 3, p897-906, 10p
Abstrakt: This research examined the possibility of developing Mokken cumulative scales measuring attitudes toward illegal immigrants in a 9-nation sample. A total of 1,407 respondents primarily from national and regional universities participated in the surveys including the 20-item Illegal Immigration Scale. The scales displayed acceptable reliability with coefficients alpha ranging from .79 to .93. A Procrustes analysis yielded coefficients of congruence with the previously established three- factor solution. The amount of variance accounted for varied between 33.1 and 54.7%, supporting the presence of other factors in attitudes toward illegal immigrants. Mokken scale analysis yielded robust and economical scales in two clusters of national samples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index