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dc.contributor.authorMavor, Kenneth I.
dc.contributor.authorLouis, Winnifred R.
dc.contributor.authorSibley, Chris G.
dc.date.accessioned2013-08-26T12:01:01Z
dc.date.available2013-08-26T12:01:01Z
dc.date.issued2010-01
dc.identifier.citationMavor , K I , Louis , W R & Sibley , C G 2010 , ' A bias-corrected exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis of right-wing authoritarianism : Support for a three-factor structure ' , Personality and Individual Differences , vol. 48 , no. 1 , pp. 28-33 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2009.08.006en
dc.identifier.issn0191-8869
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 46540973
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: bcbe01c4-0947-4836-809c-c8738515042d
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000271415700005
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 70349784228
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-3160-3889/work/60427983
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/3991
dc.description.abstractThe factor structure of right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) remains a contentious issue. Although designed to measure three underlying attitude clusters, aggression, submission and conventionalism, many items are deliberately double-or triple-barrelled, to capture the covariation of the three clusters in a unidimensional scale. Additionally, although the scale is balanced, there is an item wording direction bias in the clusters; aggression items are pro-trait, and conventionalism items are con-trait. Sub-scale structure is therefore potentially confounded with acquiescence bias. Although RWA as a unitary construct has been an effective tool for exploring prejudice, it would be useful in many cases to measure its underlying components directly. Proposed solutions to this problem include creating short-form scales as subsets of the original scale, or modifying items to simplify and un-confound the structure. We present convergent evidence of an underlying factor structure by considering one-, two-and three-factor solutions to the uncorrected scale and then using an indirect method to correct for acquiescence bias. Before and after correction, factor analysis supported a three-factor solution. Confirmatory factor analyses also support a three-factor solution compared to a one-factor solution. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofPersonality and Individual Differencesen
dc.rightsThis is the author's accepted version of this work. The published version copyright © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. is available from http://www.sciencedirect.comen
dc.subjectRight-wing authoritarianismen
dc.subjectPrejudiceen
dc.subjectAcquiescence biasen
dc.subjectSocial dominanceen
dc.subjectScaleen
dc.subjectAttitudesen
dc.subjectSocial-dominance orientationen
dc.subjectFactor analysisen
dc.subjectHN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reformen
dc.subjectBL Religionen
dc.subject.lccHNen
dc.subject.lccBLen
dc.titleA bias-corrected exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis of right-wing authoritarianism : Support for a three-factor structureen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscienceen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2009.08.006
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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