O NEKIM ASPEKTIMA VALJANOSTI POSTMATERIJALISTIČKOG KONCEPTA DRUŠTVENIH VRIJEDNOSTI
ON SOME ASPECTS OF VALIDITY OF THE POSTMATERIALIST CONCEPT OF SOCIAL VALUES

Summary/Abstract: Empirical examination of 706 respondents from eight large Croatian cities has provided us with the metric characteristics for measuring the materialist-postmaterialist concept by use of the method of comparison in pairs. Two scale variants have the internal consistency reliability of a. .538 (A-scale) and a. .414 (B-scale). Both scales indicate unidimensional characteristics, and a relative independence from measures of left:right orientation, religioussecular orientation and authoritarianism. The analysis of variance helped check the influence of the education of the respondenfs father, the respondenfs own education and recent exposure to war circumstances on the acceptance of postmaterialist values. The findings support the expectations derived from the scarcity hypothesis, and confirm the dominant influence of the father's education on the acceptance of postmaterialist values. Exposure to conditions of war can lessen the acceptance of postmaterialist values in less educated examinees if the interactional influence of war and the exarninees education is tested, while there is no proof of interactional activity when one tests the exposure to circumstances of war and the education of the examinees father.

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