Global Attitude Measurement: An Assessment of the World Values Survey Postmaterialism Scale
评估世界价值观调查中的后物质主义量表，发现其并非单一维度，存在项目偏差，对跨文化比较研究有重要参考价值。
The World Values Survey is the product of an unprecedented collaboration of investigators from five continents. Using this survey, an international postmaterialism scale was developed. This scale shows a worldwide trend away from concerns with material well-being toward a postmaterialist value system that emphasizes the free expression of ideas, greater democratization, and the development of more humane societies. The author tests the assumption that a single latent trait of postmaterialism accounts for the observed response patterns to items that make up the scale. Applying a log-linear Rasch model, he tests the assumption that the scale is a consistent cross-national measuring device and find that the scale is not unidimensional. Item bias is identified after controlling for the common stratification variables of gender, education, age, and country