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The Relationship of Commitment‐Free Behavior and Commitment Behavior: A Study of Attitude Toward Organ Transplantation
Author(s) -
Goodmonson Courtney,
Glaudin Vincent
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1971.tb00684.x
Subject(s) - likert scale , guttman scale , psychology , social psychology , organ donation , scale (ratio) , sample (material) , rating scale , normative , organizational commitment , conformity , transplantation , developmental psychology , medicine , law , chemistry , physics , surgery , chromatography , quantum mechanics , political science
A highly reliable Likert‐type summated rating scale was constructed to measure attitude toward organ transplantation, judged to be a contemporary topic with ambiguous normative guidelines. Subsequently, a sample of subjects was presented the opportunity to sign a legal document providing for posthumous donation of their organs. Responses to the criterion situation provided an eight‐point Guttman scale of commitment behavior. There was a substantial relationship between attitude scores and criterion behavior as expressed in a Pearson correlation coefficient of .58.