Human values and trust in institutions across countries: A multilevel test of Schwartz's hypothesis of structural equivalence

Survey Research Methods

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 49-60

  Morselli, Davide ^a   Spini, Dario ^a   Devos, Thierry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Multilevel structural equation modelling; Trust in institutions; Values; World Values Survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867905727     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18643361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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