Groß, Eva Maria; Haußmann, Berit: Eastern European Transformation and Youth Attitudes toward Violence. In: International Journal of Conflict and Violence. Jg.5 H. 2. 2011, S. 304-324
Inhalt
- Eva M. Groß, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence, Bielefeld University, Germany
- Berit Haußmann, German Youth Institute (DJI), Munich, Germany
- 1. Introduction: Objectives and Theoretical Frame
- 2. An Outline of Institutional Anomie Theory
- 3. IAT and Societal Transformation
- 4. Economy, Political System, and Cultural Orientations in Germany and Eastern Europe
- Figure 1: Commodification/decommodification
- Figure 2: Trust in institutions
- Figure 3: Trust in politics
- Figure 4: Personal relationship to politics
- 5. City Comparison of Adolescent Approval of Violence
- 5.1. The City-specific Dimensionality of the Violence Attitude Scale – Assessing Comparability and Cross-Cultural Interpretability of the Latent Dependent Variable
- 5.1.1 Sample and Explorative Analysis
- 5.1.2 Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Dependent Variables in Multi-group Comparison
- 5.2. Description and Discussion of Findings
- 6. Summary and Outlook
- References
- Appendix
- 1. Items
- 2. Explorative Factor Solutions
- Table A2–1: Item and scale values for the approval of violence scale for Ljubljana
- Table A2–2: Item and scale values for the approval of violence scale for Volgograd
- 3. Confirmatory City-specific Structural Comparison of Measuring Instrument
- Figure A3–1: Model 1, one-factor solution (Hamburg, Plzen, Kraków)
- Figure A3–2: Model 2, two-factor solution in Volgograd
- Figure A3–3: Model 3, two- factor solution in Ljubljana
- Table A3-1:
- 4. Validation of the Eastern Effect with Regional Dummies
- 5. Further Analyses Concerning Mechanisms that Could Explain the “Eastern Effect”
- 6. Effects of the Regional Dummies on the Possibly Mediating Variables