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 Coherence
- Our Classification
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- Error Estimates
- Metric Loading ranging from .92 to 1.3 Validity Coefficients ranging from .43 to .55 Alpha Reliability .77
- Distribution
- M = 28.3 SD = 6.4
- Operationalization
- Respondents indicated (dis)agreement with the following statements:
a) The world is too complex for you (-)
b) Only scientists understand how the world works (-)
c) You cannot make sense of what's going on in the world (-)
d) Most cultures are so strange that you cannot understand them (-)
e) It is worthwhile to understand the world you live in (+)
f) It is hard to predict what will happen next in society (-)
Items with (-) are reverse scored on scale ranging from 1.strongly 2.moderately 3.slightly disagree 4.slightly 5.moderately 6.strongly agree