Belief Structures of Students For and Against the Nuclear Freeze.

Autor/in	Tankard, James W., Jr.
Titel	Belief Structures of Students For and Against the Nuclear Freeze.
Quelle	(1983), (32 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Attitude Measures; Beliefs; Disarmament; Graduate Students; Higher Education; National Defense; Nuclear Warfare; Political Issues; Public Policy; Social Science Research; Student Attitudes; Tables (Data); Undergraduate Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Belief; Glaube; Abrüstung; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Atomkrieg; Politischer Faktor; Öffentliche Ordnung; Social scientific research; Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung; Schülerverhalten; Tabelle
Abstract	An investigation of college students' belief structures underlying their support or non-support of a nuclear freeze revealed a three-dimensional structure for beliefs in the areas of nuclear weapons and national defense. A questionnaire containing 25 belief statements concerning national defense and nuclear weapons and 4 media use questions was administered to 112 students. Participants, both graduate and undergraduate students, checked one of five responses on a scale ranging from "strongly agree" to "strongly disagree." Approximately 74 percent supported a nuclear freeze. A three-dimensional chart was constructed showing locations of supporters and non-supporters of seven policy statements on the questionnaire. Two distinct clusters emerged. One group favored a strong defense, believed in survival after a nuclear war, and believed that nuclear war is not imminent. The second group favored a strong defense, believed that a nuclear war is not survivable, and believed that nuclear war is imminent. However, positions did not differ so much on the imminence dimension as on the defense and survival dimensions, suggesting that an appeal to the imminence of nuclear war is not effective either for supporters or opposers of the freeze. The questionnaire, data tables, and charts are included. (KC)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC