A estrutura das atitudes sociopolíticas em Portugal

Abstract

SOPOL is a new inventory of socio-political attitudes adapted to the Portuguese electors. A factorial study was performed near a sample of 256 subjects, and a six first-order structure was reached, accounting for 52% of the variance. Six factor scales where then obtained, namely: religionism, socialism, conservatism, pacifism, ecologism and anomism. Several psychometric tests (item-test correlations and Cronbach’s Alpha) were used to confirm the internal consistence of the scales. Individual scores were factorized and a 3-factor second-order structure was reached, accounting for 72% of the total variance of the model. The external validity of SOPOL was tested by means of discriminant analysis of the individual scores of identified voting groups.