title: Antiunion and prounion attitudes as predictors of college students' willingness to join a union.
abstract: The authors proposed a model of antiunion attitudes and prounion attitudes as predictors of American college students' willingness to join a union (N = 1,245). Structural equation modeling results indicated that antiunion and prounion attitudes are moderately related and both show similar strength in predicting willingness to join. In addition, a general antiunion factor is shown to underlie specific antiunion attitudes, whereas items related to prounion attitudes are shown to reflect a general prounion factor. The utility of the model was supported based on initial and cross-validation samples (ns = 623 and 622, respectively). Implications for measuring union attitudes and recruiting union members among college-educated workers are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs 06269-1020, USA. David.LaHuis@uconn.edu
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: LaHuis
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mellor
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D004651:Employment; D006801:Humans; D007750:Labor Unions; D011897:Random Allocation; D012938:Social Perception; D013334:Students