Comparing levels of anti-Muslim attitudes across Western countries

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1617-1624

  Savelkoul, Michael ^a   Scheepers, Peer ^a   van der Veld, William ^a   Hagendoorn, Louk ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anti Muslim attitudes; Cross cultural research; Measurement equivalence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863550265     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-011-9470-9     Document Type: Article

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