Contemporary militant extremism: a linguistic approach to scale development
| Autor: | Gerard Saucier, Goran Knezevic, Derrick Higgins, Lazar Stankov |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Warfare Psychometrics Militant Adolescent Poison control militant mindset Mindset Violence Social Environment Suicide prevention Islam Young Adult Social Justice Humans scale development Australia Human factors and ergonomics Linguistics terrorism United States Religion Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Attitude Scale (social sciences) Terrorism Western World Female Psychology Factor Analysis Statistical Social psychology Serbia linguistic analysis extremism Personality |
| Zdroj: | Psychological Assessment |
| ISSN: | 1939-134X |
| Popis: | In this article, the authors describe procedures used in the development of a new scale of militant extremist mindset. A 2-step approach consisted of (a) linguistic analysis of the texts produced by known terrorist organizations and selection of statements from these texts that reflect the mindset of those belonging to these organizations and (b) analyses of the structural properties of the scales based on 132 selected statements. Factor analysis of militant extremist statements with participants (N = 452) from Australia, Serbia, and the United States produced 3 dimensions: (a) justification and advocacy of violence (War factor), (b) violence in the name of God (God factor), and (c) blaming Western nations for the problems in the world today (West factor). We also report the distributions of scores for the 3 subscales, mean differences among the 3 national samples, and correlations with a measure of dogmatism (M. Rokeach, 1956). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved) |
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