Nationalism and Patriotism Scales (Kosterman & Feshbach).
NAT / PAT
- What it measures
- National attachment differentiated into patriotism (affective attachment to one's country), nationalism (belief in national superiority and dominance), plus internationalism, civil liberties, and smugness subscales
- Length and format
- approx 120 item pool reduced to subscales; patriotism approx 12 and nationalism approx 8 items in standard use (counts vary by study, unverified). 5-pt to 7-pt Likert (agreement) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- 20+ langs approx incl. DE, PL, TR, ES, PT, RU, ZH, HE, RS/HR; heavily reused in ISSP National Identity module adaptations
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Kosterman R, Feshbach S. Toward a measure of patriotic and nationalistic attitudes. Polit Psychol. 1989;10(2):257-274.
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