title: Structure of attitudes toward illegal immigration: development of cross-national cumulative scales.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Social Research Methodology, VUA, De Boelelaan 1081c, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands. kvdveer@xs4all.nl
authors.forename: Kees
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: van der Veer
authors.forename: Reidar
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ommundsen
authors.forename: Knud S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Larsen
authors.forename: Hao Van
authors.initials: HV
authors.lastname: Le
authors.forename: Krum
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Krumov
authors.forename: Regina E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Pernice
authors.forename: Gerardo Pastor
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Romans
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D001315:Australia; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D004641:Emigration and Immigration / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005060:Europe; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009520:New Zealand; D012938:Social Perception; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014171:Transients and Migrants / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States