The structure of attitudes to doomsday issues

Autor:	V. A. Braithwaite, H. G. Law
Rok vydání:	1977
Předmět:	Varimax rotation media_common.quotation_subject Nuclear weapon Variable (computer science) Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Action (philosophy) Scale (social sciences) Overpopulation Dimension (data warehouse) Consciousness Psychology Social psychology General Psychology media_common
Zdroj:	Australian Psychologist. 12:167-174
ISSN:	1742-9544 0005-0067
DOI:	10.1080/00050067708255879
Popis:	Principal components analysis followed by a Varimax rotation was employed to investigate the structure of 24 belief statements representing responses to the threats posed by overpopulation, pollution and nuclear weapons. These items were administered to 170 second year Psychology students together with the Wilson and Patterson (1968) C scale which was included in the analysis as a marker variable. Little support was found for a general dimension of doomsday consciousness. Only the personal helplessness factor was defined by items representing all 3 issues. of the remaining factors, 4 dealt primarily with overpopulation and pollution and 2 were dominated by the issue of nuclear weapons. of particular interest for all issues was the way in which factors of concern and responsibility were orthogonal to factors of support for social action.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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