@article{3006863,
    title = "Cross-national validation of an eight-factor model of societal risk perception",
    author = "MacRi, D. and Mullet, E.",
    journal = "Human and Ecological Risk Assessment",
    year = "2007",
    volume = "13",
    number = "6",
    pages = "1352-1358",
    issn = "1080-7039, 1549-7860",
    doi = "10.1080/10807030701655848",
    abstract = "This study cross-nationally tested an eight-factor model of societal risk perception. The factors in the model were: Common individual hazards, Pollutants, Energy production and public transportation, Outdoor activities, Sex, deviance and addictions, Medical care, Weapons, and Psychotropic drugs. Using confirmatory factor analyses, the model was tested on a sample of Greek students and on a sample of French students, and was shown to satisfactorily account for the data in both samples. This model may be considered as a potentially useful tool for studying cross-national as well as individual differences (e.g., age, gender, worldviews or personality) in risk perception. Future studies are needed to determine: (a) whether this model applies to samples composed of persons of different ages or composed of persons from non-Western countries and (b) whether this model could be usefully expanded with one or more factors."
}