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Measuring Attitudes in Test‐Alien Cultures: When Illiteracy and Unfamiliarity Do Not Matter
Author(s) -
Shah Ashiq Ali
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
asian journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.5
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-839X
pISSN - 1367-2223
DOI - 10.1111/1467-839x.00038
Subject(s) - psychology , scale (ratio) , conceptualization , test (biology) , functional illiteracy , social psychology , trait , construct (python library) , alien , sociology , artificial intelligence , linguistics , computer science , geography , paleontology , population , philosophy , demography , census , biology , programming language , cartography
This study reports the construction of an attitude scale called a “Shah attitude scale.” This scale overcomes the problems of scale construction and attitude measurement in test‐alien cultures peculiar to Western scales. The major problems with the use of these scales are the non‐correspondence of the samples used in scale construction and attitude measurement, difficulty of their use with the illiterate and rural samples, unfamiliarity of their verbal character and the response modality. Our scale is simple to construct and can be easily used with every section of society. Its conceptualization and development is based upon the agreed upon bipolar definition of attitude and the ideas derived from well‐known attitude scales. The scale is based upon trait adjectives and can be used easily in cross‐cultural attitudinal studies.