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- Vegelius, Jan, et al.
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Polari, a Fortran IV program for measures of attitudinal polarization
- 1976
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In: Educational and Psychological Measurement. - : SAGE Publications. - 0013-1644 .- 1552-3888. ; 36:3, s. 717-719
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The two major purposes of this paper were: (1) to describe the theoretical background underlying the mathematical development of different measures of the degree of attitudinal polarization applicable to bipolar questions and (2) to outline a small FORTRAN IV program POLARI that provides a rapid means for calculation of four of these measures.
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- Edvardsson, Bo, 1944-, et al.
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Measures of attitudinal polarization
- 1975
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In: Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. - Oxford : Blackwell. - 0036-5564 .- 1467-9450. ; 16:1, s. 247-254
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Criteria for measures of attitudinal polarization, i.e. degree of opposition among people on a specific issue, are proposed and some formulas, including the standard deviation, are evaluated in relation to the criteria. The formulas were also tested on empirical data with respect to level, dispersion and agreement of received values. The measures on the whole showed a high degree of agreement. There clearly exist instances where the standard deviation is not an adequate measure of attitudinal polarization. Some guidelines are given for the choice of constant values in one of the proposed formulas.
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- Edvardsson, Bo, 1944-
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Perceived and wanted ego states for social workers and clients
- 1979
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Social work students (N = 50) were asked to ascribe psychological characteristics to themselves as social workers and to their clients. Students had to ascribe bothe perceived and wanted characteristics. These were classified into six ego state categories in transactional analysis theory. Students perceived themselves as mainly Nurturing Parents (NP) and their clients as mainly Adapted Childs (AC). Students wanted to keep their strong Nurturing Parents (NP) and wanted clients in Adult (A) ego state.
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- Boesen, Jannik, et al.
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The "success story" of peasant tobacco production in Tanzania : the political economy of a commodity producing peasantry
- 1979
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This book studies how Tanzania in a period of 25-30 years became a tobacco producer and exporter. But its emphasis is on production, and therefore on the producers. It analyses the processes that made Tanzanians into peasant producers of tobacco for the international market. The dynamics of the organization of production under changing conditions of production. The effects on the development of productive forces, reproduction processes and the standard of living among the producers.
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- Edvardsson, Bo, 1944-, et al.
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A method for evaluation of metric properties of response scales
- 1973
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- To permit certain statistical operations verbal response categories in questionnaire response scales must be given appropriate numbers. In this study the routines used to assign such numbers are discussed. A method to evaluate the metric properties of response scales, simultaneously being an alternative way of assigning proper numbers, is proposed. For this method, based on subjective estimation, two criteria related to commonality of meaning are suggested. Finally the method is demonstrated in an empirical study on eight different response scales.
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- Edvardsson, Bo, 1944-
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Attitudinal types concerning environmental problems
- 1975
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In: Man-Environment-Systems. - 0025-1550. ; 5:3, s. 183-184
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In an investigation with linear typal analysis on a representative sample of the Swedish population (N = 229 participants) and a local sample with N=31 environmental activists two attitudinal types were found. Type I respondents seemed to be more concerned than type II respondents. Type I gave environmental problems a higher priority, was critical against authorities, industry, city growth, and motorism, more restrictive against economic growth, more worried about the future, and demanded more information and public influence than type II. By computing Euclidean distances to the mean 64-variable profile of the two types 28 of the activists were classified as type I. The typology was crosstabulated against 46 other variables. There were no correlations with conventional background variables.
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