社会的態度の測定論的研究-4-
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Eysenck made an attempt to integrate the findings of Thurstone, Carlson and Ferguson in the factorial study of social attitudes. It was found that when the original two centroid axis in each of thvarious analysis were super-imposed on each other, similar items from the diffefent researches fell into the four quadrants. The first axis or factor was interpreted as"radicalism-conservatism". The second factor was interpreted as "tough-minded-tender-minded." The first factor was called R, the second factor T. Proof for the correct identification of the two factors was obtained by some studies.<BR>The analysis of social attitudes into two main factors may thus be regarded as having a considerable degree of validity. And it appears to be relatively independent of the country in which the analysis is carried out for the particular items or scale employed. Some investigations recently have shown that a very similar pattern to Eysenck's finding in England emerged in different cultures, such as the American, Swedish, and the German, where the set of questions used in the previous analysis was given to samples in each of these countries respectively.<BR>We used Eysenck's original questionnaire. And we attempted to compare the factorial structure of social attitudes that we found in samples of the Japanese with their results. 355 males and females were selected randomly from the various social classes. Responses to the 38 statements were then intercorrelated. And the tetrachofic correlation coefficients were calculated. A factor analysis was carried out with the matrix, and two main factors extracted. These factors could be called definitely R and T as well as in Eysenck's result. These two factors were plotted in diagramatic form and we found the factorial structure of social attitudes in Japan. This result showed that almost every detail could be matched with the studies in various countries. But this Similarity is not complete. Such differences are relatively few, and are usually easily understood in terms of definite historical causes.
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