TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1990//
TI  - Good and bad years: An index of american social, economic, and political threat (1920-1986)
JO  - Journal of psychology, The
A1  - McCann, S.J.H.
A1  - Stewin, L.L.
SP  - 601
EP  - 617
VL  - 124
IS  - 6
N2  - Information provided by 196 U.S. history professors, indicating the degree to which they considered each of the years from 1920 to 1986 threatening to the established order and way of life in America, was pooled to form a social, economic, and political threat (SEPT) index. Interrater reliability was high, and substantial test-retest reliability was evident for a selected subsample over a 6-month period. The index significantly correlated with 11 objective indices of threat, including the suicide rate, unemployment rate, rise and fall of common stocks, and number of military men on active duty. Several studies involving threat and authoritarianism were replicated and in some instances extended with the SEPT index (McCann and Stewin, 1984; Sales, 1972, 1973). The pseudo-archival SEPT index has utility when relatively global estimates of prevailing threat are required for historiometric research testing a diversity of hypotheses gleaned from psychological, sociological, historical, and political science theories. © 1990 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-3980
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00223980.1990.10543253
ID  - ref1
ER  -