Level and change of group-focused enmity in Germany: Unconditional and conditional latent growth curve models with four panel waves

AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 481-500

  Davidov, Eldad ^a   Thörner, Stefan ^b   Schmidt, Peter ^b,c   Gosen, Stefanie ^b   Wolf, Carina ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Russian Federation)

^d BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conditional and unconditional latent growth curve modeling; Group focused enmity; Panel data; Prejudice; Syndrome

Indexed keywords

EID: 81355148560     PISSN: 18638171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10182-011-0174-1     Document Type: Article

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