Cross-Cultural Attitude Assessment With the Miale-Holsopple Sentence Completion Test

Certain sentence stems in the 73 item Miale-Holsopple Sentence Completion Test can be interpreted as open-ended attitude questions, revealing world views in particular societies. Sentence stems #7, "The easiest way to get money;" #8, "Twenty years from now;" #18, "The white...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of personality assessment 1990-12, Vol.55 (3-4), p.657-662
Hauptverfasser: Potash, Herbert M., de Fileo Crespo, Andrea, Patel, Sanjiv, Ceravolo, Anita
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Zusammenfassung:Certain sentence stems in the 73 item Miale-Holsopple Sentence Completion Test can be interpreted as open-ended attitude questions, revealing world views in particular societies. Sentence stems #7, "The easiest way to get money;" #8, "Twenty years from now;" #18, "The white girl who married the black man;" #48, "A naked man;" and #54, "A woman's body" were selected for cross-cultural study. Thirty-nine American college students answered the standard form of the Miale-Holsopple, and 60 Brazilian students answered a Portuguese version of this test. American students gave more positive work ethic responses to stems #7 and #8 and more negative responses to interracial marriages than did Brazilians. The Brazilian females gave more positive responses to stem #54 than did American women.
ISSN:0022-3891
1532-7752
DOI:10.1080/00223891.1990.9674100