Developing attitude statements toward illegal immigration: transcultural reliability and utility.
This is a report on the utility of a scale measuring attitudes toward illegal immigrants in two samples from nations that have more people moving out of the country than moving into the country. The Attitude toward Illegal Immigrants Scale was administered to 219 undergraduates from Sofia University in Bulgaria, and 179 undergraduates from Hanoi State University in Vietnam. Results yielded a scale with no sex differences, and acceptable alpha coefficients. Item analysis identified the most contributory and least contributory items, with considerable overlap in the two samples. A principal component analysis with varimax rotation was carried out to examine the structure.
Ommundsen
Reidar
R
Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. reidar.ommundsen@psykologi.uio.no
van der Veer
Kees
K
Le
Hao Van
HV
Krumov
Krum
K
Larsen
Knud S
KS
D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D003416:Criminal Law / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D003469:Culture; D004641:Emigration and Immigration / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012737:Sex Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires