Study Keyes (1998): study US Wisconsin 1994
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, Dane County, Wisconsin USA, 1994
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 373
- Non Response
- 37%
- Assessment
- Interview: Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI)
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Social Actualization
- Our Classification
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- Error Estimates
- Metric Loading ranging from 0.54 to 1.0 Validity coefficient for the scoring ranged from 0.46 to 0.62 Alpha reliabiliy 0 .69
- Distribution
- M = 32.1 SD = 5.7
- Operationalization
- Respondents indicated (dis)agreement with the following statements:
a) Society has stopped making progress (-)
b) Society is not improving for people like you (-)
c) Social institutions (e.g. government & law) do not make your life better (-)
d) Society is continually evolving (+)
e) Society is a productive place for people to live in (+)
f) There is no social progress (-)
g) The world is becoming a better place for everyone (+)
Items with (-) are reverse scored on scale ranging from 1.strongly 2.moderately 3.slightly disagree 4.slightly 5.moderately 6.Strongly agree