Contemporary Militant Extremism: A Linguistic Approach to Scale Development
Abstract
In this article, the authors describe procedures used in the development of a new scale of militant extremist mindset. A 2-step approach consisted of (a) linguistic analysis of the texts produced by known terrorist organizations and selection of statements from these texts that reflect the mindset of those belonging to these organizations and (b) analyses of the structural properties of the scales based on 132 selected statements. Factor analysis of militant extremist statements with participants (N = 452) from Australia, Serbia, and the United States produced 3 dimensions: (a) justification and advocacy of violence (War factor), (b) violence in the name of God (God factor), and (c) blaming Western nations for the problems in the world today (West factor). We also report the distributions of scores for the 3 subscales, mean differences among the 3 national samples, and correlations with a measure of dogmatism (M. Rokeach, 1956).
Keywords:
terrorism / scale development / militant mindset / linguistic analysis / extremismSource:
Psychological Assessment, 2010, 22, 2, 246-258Publisher:
- Amer Psychological Assoc, Washington
DOI: 10.1037/a0017372
ISSN: 1040-3590
PubMed: 20528052
WoS: 000278665600005
Scopus: 2-s2.0-77953878238
Institution/Community
Psihologija / PsychologyTY - JOUR AU - Stankov, Lazar AU - Higgins, Derrick AU - Saucier, Gerard AU - Knežević, Goran PY - 2010 UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/992 AB - In this article, the authors describe procedures used in the development of a new scale of militant extremist mindset. A 2-step approach consisted of (a) linguistic analysis of the texts produced by known terrorist organizations and selection of statements from these texts that reflect the mindset of those belonging to these organizations and (b) analyses of the structural properties of the scales based on 132 selected statements. Factor analysis of militant extremist statements with participants (N = 452) from Australia, Serbia, and the United States produced 3 dimensions: (a) justification and advocacy of violence (War factor), (b) violence in the name of God (God factor), and (c) blaming Western nations for the problems in the world today (West factor). We also report the distributions of scores for the 3 subscales, mean differences among the 3 national samples, and correlations with a measure of dogmatism (M. Rokeach, 1956). PB - Amer Psychological Assoc, Washington T2 - Psychological Assessment T1 - Contemporary Militant Extremism: A Linguistic Approach to Scale Development EP - 258 IS - 2 SP - 246 VL - 22 DO - 10.1037/a0017372 ER -
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Stankov, L., Higgins, D., Saucier, G.,& Knežević, G.. (2010). Contemporary Militant Extremism: A Linguistic Approach to Scale Development. in Psychological Assessment Amer Psychological Assoc, Washington., 22(2), 246-258. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0017372
Stankov L, Higgins D, Saucier G, Knežević G. Contemporary Militant Extremism: A Linguistic Approach to Scale Development. in Psychological Assessment. 2010;22(2):246-258. doi:10.1037/a0017372 .
Stankov, Lazar, Higgins, Derrick, Saucier, Gerard, Knežević, Goran, "Contemporary Militant Extremism: A Linguistic Approach to Scale Development" in Psychological Assessment, 22, no. 2 (2010):246-258, https://doi.org/10.1037/a0017372 . .