Structure of attitudes toward illegal immigration: Development of cross-national cumulative scales

Psychological Reports

Volumn 94, Issue 3 I, 2004, Pages 897-906

  Van Der Veer, Kees ^a   Ommundsen, Reidar ^b   Larsen, Knud S ^c   Van Le, Hao ^d   Krumov, Krum ^e   Pernice, Regina E ^f   Romans, Gerardo Pastor ^g  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d National Institute of Psychology   (Pakistan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^f MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^g UNIVERSIDAD PONTIFICIA DE SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AUSTRALIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MIGRATION; NEW ZEALAND; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; AUSTRALIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 3142734878     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.94.3.897-906     Document Type: Article

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