Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Tarter, Donald E.

Titel

Toward Prediction of Attitude-Action Discrepancy

Ist Teil von

• Social forces, 1969-06, Vol.47 (4), p.398-405

Ort / Verlag

Chapel Hill, N.C: The University of North Carolina Press

Erscheinungsjahr

1969

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In an attempt to predict behavior discrepant from measured attitudes, an instrument is developed which utilizes Parsons and Shils' pattern-variable scheme. Some 338 subjects are tested to ascertain their racial attitudes. A sample of 40 subjects is drawn, and these are forced to activate their attitudes in the face of social opposition. The instrument as a whole is unable to predict discrepant behavior, but the diffuseness-specificity variable is found to be an excellent predictor of actual situational behavior in an experimental situation which makes that dilemma paramount. Emphasis is placed on the fact that individual pattern-variable dilemmas, when measured, may offer a way to significantly increase prediction of actual behavior.