An australian ethnocentrism scale
- 1 December 1969
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Australian Journal of Psychology
- Vol. 21 (3) , 211-225
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00049536908257791
Abstract
To form a scale of ethnocentrism, 32 items were slected according to both their power of discrimination between criterion groups of subjects and their internal consistency in a pilot study of 192 subjects. The original pool of items was set up to comply with various facets of ethnocentrism as defined by Levinson and illustrated in the California E scale and the British Ethnocentrism scale. Validity was demonstrated in the main study of 273 subjects by highly significant differences between criterion groups selected according to age, socio‐economic status, student‐nonstudent, levels of education, income, religion and other criteria in accord with the theory and previous findings in Britain and the U.S. Partitioning of the main sample revealed the predominance of education as a determinant.Keywords
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