title: Prejudiced attitude measurement using the Rasch Rating Scale model.
abstract: There have been two basic approaches for the study of minority group prejudice against the majority: to adapt instruments from the majority group, and to use qualitative techniques by analyzing the content of the discourse of the groups involved. Neither of these procedures solves the problem of measuring intergroup attitudes of majorities and minorities in interaction. This study shows the result of a prejudice scale which was developed to measure the attitude of both the minority and majority groups. Prejudice is conceived as an attitude which requires the beliefs or opinions about the out-group, the emotions it elicits, and the behavior or intentional behavior toward it to be known for its evaluation. The innovation in this work is that the psychometric development of the scale was based on the item response theory, and more specifically, the rating scale model.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Psychology, University of Almería, 04120 Almería, Spain. arojas@ual.es
authors.forename: Antonio J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Rojas Tejada
authors.forename: Oscar M
authors.initials: OM
authors.lastname: Lozano Rojas
authors.forename: Marisol
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Navas Luque
authors.forename: Pedro J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Pérez Moreno
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D001290:Attitude; D003469:Culture; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000523:psychology*; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011287:Prejudice; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012933:Social Identification; D013030:Spain; D055815:Young Adult