WilPat {MPsychoR}R Documentation

Wilson-Patterson Conservatism Scale

Description

This dataset contains a modified version of the classical Wilson-Patterson conservatism scale. Each item has the following response categories: 0 ... disapprove, 1 ... approve, 2 ... don't know.

Usage

data("WilPat")

Format

The first 15 items are conservative items, the remaining ones are liberal. There are 804 persons in the sample. In addition there are the following covariates:

Country

Participant's country.

LibCons

Self-reported liberalism/conservatism.

LeftRight

Self-reported left/right identification.

Gender

Gender.

Age

Age.

Note

Thanks to Benedek Kurdi and Levente Littvay for providing this dataset.

Examples

data("WilPat")
str(WilPat)

[Package MPsychoR version 0.10-8 Index]