Amoral social attitudes and value systems among Serbs and Australians

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the factorial structure of a battery of measures of amoral social attitudes and compare samples of Serbs and Australians in their performance on these measures. New scales of amoral social attitudes and Schwartz and Bilsky's (1990) Value Survey were completed by samples of Australian (n = 452) and Serbian (n = 359) students. Four factors were extracted using exploratory factor analysis: Malicious Amorality, Tough Amorality, Self-indulgence/Self-transcendence and Conservatism/Individualism. Correlations among the factors suggest that there are two independent - Amoral Social Attitudes and Values Systems - factors at the higher order. Serbs score significantly higher than Australians on Tough Amorality. Australians score higher than Serbs on the remaining three factors.