Development of attitude strength over the life cycle: surge and decline.
Development of attitude strength over the life cycle: surge and decline.
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DOI：
10.1037//0022-3514.75.6.1389
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发表时间：
1998-12
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
P. S. Visser;J. Krosnick
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作者：
P. S. Visser;J. Krosnick
本文探讨了年龄与态度强度的表现和影响因素之间的关系。三项研究表明，与成年中期相比，成年早期和晚期对态度变化的敏感性更高。另外三项研究表明，与态度相关的知识在成年中期的重要性、确定性和感知数量都比成年早期或晚期更大。因此，这些前因可能解释了生命周期对变化的易感性的变化。对变化的敏感度、重要性、确定性和感知知识在与教育、性别和种族的相关性方面彼此不同，挑战了态度强度是一个统一结构的概念。有证据表明，人们错误地认为，改变的敏感度在一生中会稳步下降，这强化了态度强度的操作和元态度测量之间的区别。
This article explores the relation of age to manifestations and antecedents of attitude strength. Three studies demonstrate that susceptibility to attitude change is greater during early and late adulthood than during middle adulthood. Three additional studies demonstrate that attitude importance, certainty, and perceived quantity of attitude-relevant knowledge are greater in middle adulthood than during early or late adulthood. These antecedents may therefore explain life cycle shifts in susceptibility to change. Susceptibility to change, importance, certainty, and perceived knowledge differ from one another in terms of their correlations with education, gender, and race, challenging the notion that attitude strength is a unitary construct. Evidence that people incorrectly believe that susceptibility to change declines steadily over the life course reinforces the distinction between operative and meta-attitudinal measures of attitude strength.