Cross-Validation Study with Confirmatory Factorial Analysis of the Revised Legal Attitudes Questionnaire Scores

The present article establishes the factorial structure of the Legal AttitudesQuestionnaire, one of the most frequently used measurements for the studyof legal authoritarianism, in several Spanish samples consisting of a communitypopulation (N1 = 618 and N2 = 533). In study 1, confirmatory factorial analysesare carried out by LISREL for different models, based on theory and on previousexploratory analyses. In study 2, based on the models selected in study 1, across-validation study is carried out by multigroup analysis. The structure thatappears to be most adequate is the one based on two trait factors (authoritarianismand anti-authoritarianism) and one of method, in which the tendencies of the participants' answers are included