Individual values, cultural embeddedness, and anti-immigration sentiments: Explaining differences in the effect of values on attitudes toward immigration across Europe;Individuelle Werte, kulturelle Einbettung und immigrations-feindliche Einstellungen: Wie sich die Unterschiede in den Wirkungen von Werten auf Einstellungen zur Immigration in Europa erklären lassen

Kolner Zeitschrift fur Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 263-285

  Davidov, Eldad ^a   Meulemann, Bart ^b   Schwartz, Shalom H ^c   Schmidt, Peter ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attitudes toward immigration; Basic human values; Cross level interaction; European Social Survey; Measurement equivalence; Multilevel analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919881474     PISSN: 00232653     EISSN: 1861891X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11577-014-0274-5     Document Type: Article

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