TY - JOUR
TI - Cross-national validation of an eight-factor model of societal risk perception
AU - MacRi, D.
AU - Mullet, E.
JO - Human and Ecological Risk Assessment
PY - 2007
VL - 13
TODO - 6
SP - 1352-1358
PB - 
SN - 1080-7039, 1549-7860
TODO - 10.1080/10807030701655848
TODO - null
TODO - 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.
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