Attitudes toward the transportation of nuclear waste: the development of a Likert-type scale.

From: The Journal of Social Psychology | Date: February 1, 1994| Author: Larsen, Knud S. | Copyright information

This five-phase study reports on the development of a scale measuring attitudes toward the transportation of nuclear waste. In the United States, 430 male and 400 female students responded to five separate surveys. Phase 1 yielded 30 Likert-type items with part--whole correlations greater than .58; split-half reliabilities as corrected by the Spearman--Brown formula were .88 and .86. Phases 3, 4, and 5 reported on studies that showed that the Attitudes Toward the Transportation of Nuclear W...

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