Quality and Quantity
Volume 50, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 471-490

Attitudes towards Roma people and migrants: a comparison through a Bayesian multidimensional IRT model (Article)

Fontanella L.* , Villano P. , Di Donato M.
  • a Department of Economics, University G. D’Annunzio, Viale Pindaro 42, Pescara, Italy
  • b Department of Education, University of Bologna, Via Filippo Re 6, Bologna, Italy
  • c Pescara, Italy

Abstract

In the context of social psychological research on relations between cultural defined groups, the main topics of interest include ethnic prejudice, attitudes and stereotypes. In the present study, in order to measure and compare attitudes towards Roma people and migrants and to investigate how these attitudes vary according to individual characteristics, we develop an integrated model which embeds a multidimensional Item Response Theory model for polytomous data into a structural equation formulation. Item and person parameters and structural coefficients are estimated on data collected through a web survey. Full probabilistic inference is performed by applying Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques. © 2015, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.

Author Keywords

Prejudice Migrants Roma people IRT models SEM Bayesian estimation

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84957954634&doi=10.1007%2fs11135-014-0158-9&partnerID=40&md5=7f9cf2112c2b0cbb6458276755a9bc7c
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-014-0158-9
ISSN: 00335177
Cited by: 7
Original Language: English