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Construction and validation of the worldview analysis scale
| Title: | Construction and validation of the worldview analysis scale |
| Author: | Obasi, Ezemenari Marquis |
| Description: | The purpose of this study was to develop the Worldview Analysis Scale (WAS). The WAS is a 41-item instrument designed to assess cultural worldview orientation for people of African and European descent. Worldview was operationalized as the philosophical assumptions (cosmology, epistemology, ontology, axiology, and teleology) which determine the way in which people perceive, think, feel, and experience the world. Participants consisted of 350 college student enrolled in a psychology or African/African American studies course at a large Midwestern university. A 5 X 2 X 8 MANOV Aanalysis found ethnicity to be a predictor of cultural worldview orientation. A significant difference existed between African Americans and European Americans, with African Americans scoring in the African 90% confidence interval and European Americans scoring in the European 90% confidence interval. An exploratory oblique Crawford-Ferguson quartimax factor analysis was performed and an eight-factor solution was retained: acquisitive rationalism, scientific universe, life/death interaction, communalism, spiritual/physical interaction, tangible realism, knowledge of self, and spiritual universe. The WAS produced favorable reliability, validity, and factor goodness of fit indices. It is concluded that the WAS shows great promise in assessing between and within group differences and similarities of people of African and European descent. |
| Permanent Link: |
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1140709350
http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/4443 |
| Date: | 2002 |
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