Spanish Social Attitudes : a Factor Analytic Study, 1982

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><br>To study psychometric properties of two scales devised in Spain with the purpose of assessing the structure of social attitudes in that country.<br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR><br>Variables<br>
The study uses two scales:<br>
1) Burgaleta's (1976) RD40 scale which purports to measure two supposedly orthogonal factors: radicalism (as opposed to conservatism) and dogmatism (as opposed to flexibility). This was tested on 764 subjects (335 male and 420 female) attending a social psychology seminar at Madrid's Complutense University.<br>
2) SPS or Spanish Psychosocial Scale (Giorgi and Seisdedos, 1982) which attempts to operationalize attitudes towards politics, religion, sexual practices, foreigners, military institutions and a wide range of controversial social issues. This was tested on a sample of 1409 subjects made up of 764 university undergraduates plus a group of 645 non-students. The latter comprised 365 males and 280 females, the males being drawn from the Spanish Army. (Military service is compulsory in Spain, and conscripts come from various regions).