Scale name: Attitudes Toward Abortion Scale
Scale
overview: The
Attitudes Toward Abortion Scale is a 12-item, four-choice agreement rating scale.
Authors:
Michael Taylor and George Whitehead
Response
Type: Items are
rated on a scale of agreement: strongly agree, agree, disagree, strongly
disagree.
Subscales
= 2 with sample item
Moral/Legality
1. Abortion is not acceptable under any circumstances.
External Influence
10. Abortions should be partially covered by insurance companies.
Reliability:
Cronbach’s alpha =
.92 in the scale development sample.
Validity: The scale was significantly
correlated with the Hess & Rueb abortion scale and the James religiosity
scale. The results of a factor analysis yielded two factors.
Availability:
The scale
is available online in the article at https://scholar.utc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1339&context=mps
Reference
for the scale
Taylor,
M. G. and Whitehead, G. I. (2014) "The measurement of attitudes
toward abortion," Modern Psychological Studies, 20,1. https://scholar.utc.edu/mps/vol20/iss1/7
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