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Attitudes toward illegal immigration: a cross-national methodological comparison.
Full Abstract
This research is an examination of the generalizability of a Likert-type scale originally devised to measure attitudes toward illegal immigrants (IA) in the United States. The current authors administered this scale across 4 national samples using several methodological procedures. Undergraduate students (631) responded to the IA scale (R. Ommundsen & K. S. Larsen, 1997) at the University of Oslo, Oregon State University, the University of Copenhagen, and Vrije University of Amsterdam. The authors' main purpose was to evaluate the adequacy of the 20-item IA scale by examining possible problems with method and translation. A translation study carried out with the Danish, Norwegian, and Dutch samples (N = 299) showed that the various national versions were fairly accurate and contained largely the same meanings. The use of procrustes analysis of the IA scale yielded 3 factors in all 4 national samples. The coefficient of congruence of these 3 orthogonally rotated factor matrices, with the U.S. factor matrix as target, varied from .80 to .95, supporting the cross-national robustness of the scale. In the search for a more economical cumulative scale, a Mokken analysis yielded a 5-item scale that represented the aforementioned 3 factors and was stable across national samples.
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Author/s: Ommundsen, Reidar (R); Hak, Tony (T); Mörch, Sven (S); Larsen, Knud S (KS); Van der Veer, Kees (K);
Affiliation: Institute of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway.
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article
Journal: The Journal of psychology (J Psychol), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-Jan; vol 136 (issue 1) : pp 103-10
Dates: Created 2002/05/22; Completed 2002/12/04; Revised 2006/11/15;
PMID: 12022774, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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