Review of psychology, Vol. 12 No. 2, 2005.
Original scientific paper
Self-report measure of attitude functions: instrumental attitudes towards condom use and value-expressive attitudes towards voting?
Renata Franc
Tihana Brkljačić
Abstract
This study presents an attempt to develop and validate a direct self-report measure of instrumental, value-expressive and social adjustive attitude function. Participants were two samples of university student (N = 442) and we used two specific attitude objects e.g. “voting” and “condom use”. Factor analyses conducted on two different samples and with two different attitude objects revealed congruent factor solutions, suggesting a reliable and replicable expected three-factor structure. In addition, resulted scales have satisfactory high reliability. A two multiple regression analyses with the general attitude score as the dependent variable and a three attitude functions scores as predictors, revealed that that instrumental function is only important predictor of attitude towards condom use, while value-expressive function is solely important predictor of attitude towards voting. More compelling evidence for the validity of the scales would be provided if it were shown that scales could differentiate between instrumental, value-expressive and social adjustive attitudes that were newly established with an experimental manipulation or are sensitive for attitude function salience manipulation related to existing attitudes.
Keywords
instrumental attitude function; value-expressive attitude function; social-adjustive attitude function
Hrčak ID:
2318
URI
Publication date:
12.4.2006.
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