caa a22 4500 465756360 CHVBK 20180323111848.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19900201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00221386 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00221386 Alternative measures of political efficacy: models and means [Elektronische Daten] [Alan Acock, Harold Clarke] In the 1982 and 1984 American national election surveys the CPS deleted a subset of its longstanding measures of political efficacy. This paper employs covariance structure analysis to test a two-factor measurement model based on alternative indicators. The model has an excellent fit for data from the 1964-84 national surveys as well as for different educational, gender, and racial groups in the 1984 study. Consistent with previous theorizing, the internal efficacy factor is significantly more stable than the external factor. Also, the two efficacy factors correlate as expected with measures of general personal competence and political trust. The paper is the first to use LISREL structured means tests to test group differences in levels of efficacy or other important political attitudes. Since this technique is not well-known, a tutorial appendix describing its implementation in LISREL VI is included to facilitate future research. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990 Acock Alan Center for Life Course and Population Studies, Department of Sociology, Louisiana State University, 70803-5411, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA aut Clarke Harold Department of Political Science, University of North Texas, 7603-5338, Denton, Texas, USA aut Quality and Quantity Kluwer Academic Publishers 24/1(1990-02-01), 87-105 0033-5177 24:1<87 1990 24 11135 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00221386 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00221386 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Acock Alan Center for Life Course and Population Studies, Department of Sociology, Louisiana State University, 70803-5411, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Clarke Harold Department of Political Science, University of North Texas, 7603-5338, Denton, Texas, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Quality and Quantity Kluwer Academic Publishers 24/1(1990-02-01), 87-105 0033-5177 24:1<87 1990 24 11135 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer