Sousa Fátima Aparecida Emm Faleiros, da Silva José Aparecido
Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.
Rev Lat Am Enfermagem. 2003 May-Jun;11(3):320-5. Epub 2003 Sep 2.
The social prestige of professions with higher education, exercised by social assistants, biologists, dentists, nurses, engineers, pharmacists, physicists, physiotherapists, phonoaudiologists, physicians, chemists and sociologists, was scaled by using both the indirect ordering method and the direct psychophysical category and magnitude estimation methods. The results showed: (1) high correlation (rho = 0.97) between the prestige levels attributed to the professions, obtained by the three psychophysical methods, (2) the non-metric continuum of professional prestige exhibited prothetic characteristics (rho = 0.96); (3) the relationship between the magnitude estimates and category estimates is a semi-logarithmic function, and (4) the variability of magnitudes estimates, indicated by the standard error of geometric mean, was a linear function of the geometric mean of the magnitude estimates, thus confirming that Ekman's law is also valid for non-metric continua. In short, the data showed that the scale of social prestige possesses quantitative or prothetic characteristics, and not qualitative or metathetic ones.
社会助理、生物学家、牙医、护士、工程师、药剂师、物理学家、物理治疗师、听觉语言治疗师、医生、化学家和社会学家等从事高等教育职业的社会声望，通过间接排序法以及直接的心理物理学类别和量值估计法进行了衡量。结果显示：(1) 三种心理物理学方法得出的各职业声望水平之间存在高度相关性（rho = 0.97）；(2) 职业声望的非度量连续体呈现出增量特性（rho = 0.96）；(3) 量值估计与类别估计之间的关系是半对数函数；(4) 由几何平均数的标准误差表示的量值估计的变异性，是量值估计几何平均数的线性函数，从而证实埃克曼定律对非度量连续体也有效。简而言之，数据表明社会声望量表具有定量或增量特征，而非定性或转换特征。
