Kennesaw State University, GA, USA.
Lyon College, Batesville, AR, USA.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2020 Jan;46(1):20-35. doi: 10.1177/0146167219841624. Epub 2019 May 7.
The motivated social cognition (MSC) model of conservative ideology posits there are two core facets of conservative political ideology-endorsement of hierarchies and resistance to change. The present research tested the validity and reliability of a scale developed to measure resistance to change. Five studies support the validity, reliability, and factor structure of the Resistance to Change-Beliefs (RC-B) scale. Scores on the RC-B scale correlated with social and cognitive motivations as well as self-identified conservatism. RC-B also predicted more conservative stances on political issues and factor analyses supported the predicted internal structure of the RC-B scale. This provides the field with a validated instrument that avoids problems inherent in previous measures, can be used to test predictions from the MSC model, and has potential applications beyond political psychology.
保守主义思想的动机社会认知（MSC）模型假设，保守政治思想有两个核心方面——对等级制度的认可和对变革的抵制。本研究检验了一种旨在衡量变革抵制的量表的有效性和可靠性。五项研究支持变革抵制-信念（RC-B）量表的有效性、可靠性和因素结构。RC-B 量表的得分与社会和认知动机以及自我认同的保守主义相关。RC-B 还预测了在政治问题上更保守的立场，因子分析也支持 RC-B 量表的预测内部结构。这为该领域提供了一种经过验证的工具，该工具避免了先前测量中固有的问题，可以用于测试 MSC 模型的预测，并且具有超越政治心理学的潜在应用。
