Development and Calibration of Instruments to Measure Dogmatism and "Left" and "Right" Political Attitudes

Topics: The survey is two-part with an oral and a written survey. In the written part of the survey the respondent filled out the dogmatism scale presented and a scale to determine political attitudes.

In the oral survey the following was obtained: political interest (scale); self-assessment on a left-right continuum; estimate of distribution of religious affiliation as well as vote distribution for the parties at place of residence and in residential area; party preference and party ties; religiousness; membership in a trade union; rank order of liking 10 jokes presented. Demography: age (classified); age; sex; marital status; religious denomination; school education; occupation; employment; occupational group; interest in politics; party preference; behavior at the polls in the last Federal Parliament election; party inclination; political orientation; party identification.