Investigating the Structure and Functions of Worldview Assumptions

dc.contributor.advisor	Saucier, Gerard
dc.contributor.author	Bou Malham, Philippe
dc.date.accessioned	2017-09-06T21:52:27Z
dc.date.available	2017-09-06T21:52:27Z
dc.date.issued	2017-09-06
dc.description.abstract	The goal of this dissertation was to develop a relatively comprehensive and culturally de-centered measure of worldview assumptions, basic beliefs that humans have about the world and reality. A pool of 179 items was compiled from a selective review of the literature and submitted to Exploratory Factor Analysis in a US sample. The emergent 6-factor structure was submitted to increasingly stringent tests of invariance in samples from Lebanon, Singapore, and India and met the standards for factorial invariance. The 6-factors showed a diverse set of relationships with measures of the potential functions of worldview: subjective well-being, meaning in life, and tolerance for inequality.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1794/22722
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	University of Oregon
dc.rights	All Rights Reserved.
dc.subject	Beliefs	en_US
dc.subject	Cross-cultural	en_US
dc.subject	Measurement	en_US
dc.subject	Survey development	en_US
dc.subject	worldview	en_US
dc.title	Investigating the Structure and Functions of Worldview Assumptions
dc.type	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.discipline	Department of Psychology
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Oregon
thesis.degree.level	doctoral
thesis.degree.name	Ph.D.

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