Warning: package 'dplyr' was built under R version 4.3.2Warning: package 'kableExtra' was built under R version 4.3.23 Individual Choice Norms
Cluster: Morals/Values
3.1 Measure
The individual Choice Norms measure is taken from Religion’s Sudden Decline by Inglehart (2020).
Modifications
As with our other measures we standardised the agreement scale to be 7 items, in this case instead of originally 5 items.
3.2 Implementation
Question wording
Participants read the following text:
Please read each of the following statements carefully and state to what extent you agree. There are no right or wrong answers and your responses remain anonymous.
Items
| Qlabel | Question |
|---|---|
| icn_01 | Homosexuality is never justifiable |
| icn_02 | When jobs are scarce, men have more right to a job than women |
| icn_03 | Divorce is never justifiable |
| icn_04 | On the whole, men make better political leaders than women do |
| icn_05 | Abortion is never justifiable |
| icn_06 | A university education is more important for a boy than for a girl |
Coding
This questionnaire used our standard response scale for agreement.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| strongly disagree | moderately disagree | slightly disagree | neither agree nor disagree | slightly agree | moderately agree | strongly agree |
No items were reverse coded
Scoring
The following variables were derived from this measure
| Variable Name | Variable Label | Description | Variable Type | Source (Section) | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Individual Choice Norms | choice_norms | Individual choice norms score | numeric | Individual Choice Norms | The mean of icn_01 : icn_06 |