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A New Measure of Anti‐Arab Prejudice: Reliability and Validity Evidence
Author(s) -
EchebarriaEchabe Agustín,
Guede Emilia Fernández
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2007.00200.x
Subject(s) - prejudice (legal term) , psychology , scale (ratio) , social psychology , authoritarianism , reliability (semiconductor) , validity , context (archaeology) , ethnocentrism , variance (accounting) , conservatism , psychometrics , clinical psychology , political science , politics , power (physics) , paleontology , physics , accounting , quantum mechanics , law , business , democracy , biology
Two studies were conducted to provide reliability and validity support for a new anti‐Arab prejudice scale. The scale was designed to fit to the European context and showed very satisfactory reliability. Moreover, both studies provided convergent validity support. Anti‐Arab prejudice was correlated with authoritarianism, anti‐Semitism, and conservatism. The correlation between the new scale and an adapted version of McConahay's (1986) Modern Racism scale was very strong. Furthermore, the second study provided predictive validity support. Scores in the new scale explained 20% of the variance in an ulterior actual behavior (to return a signed form supporting an association aimed to defend European values and culture against Islamization).