Evidence of method effects in the authoritarianism-conservatism-traditionalism scales
Ng, Da Xuan, Chew, Peter K.H., and Ramsay, Jonathan (2023) Evidence of method effects in the authoritarianism-conservatism-traditionalism scales. Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, 17.
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Abstract
Right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) is notoriously complex, multifaceted, and difficult to measure as a psychological construct. Recently, Duckitt et al. developed the ACT scales, offering theoretical refinement of the RWA construct. Although the validity of the ACT scales had been supported by a considerable body of research, shortcomings in previous analyses cannot rule out the existence of possible method effects. In the present research, we sought to test for the presence of such effects in a representative community sample of adults in Singapore (N = 738). We re-evaluated the factor structure of the ACT scales by assessing four separate models using an item-based approach in our confirmatory factor analyses. Results found significant method effects associated with both the pro-trait and con-trait items in the ACT scales. The implications of these results and possible strategies for controlling method effects in the ACT scales are discussed.
| Item ID: | 78612 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 1834-4909 |
| Keywords: | authoritarianism, conservatism, factor analysis, ideological attitudes, method effect, traditionalism |
| Copyright Information: | Creative Commons CC BY: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Date Deposited: | 31 May 2023 02:09 |
| FoR Codes: | 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5299 Other psychology > 529999 Other psychology not elsewhere classified @ 50% 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5205 Social and personality psychology > 520503 Personality and individual differences @ 50% |
| SEO Codes: | 28 EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE > 2801 Expanding knowledge > 280121 Expanding knowledge in psychology @ 100% |
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