These aspects need to be clarified and accounted for in analyses of elicited responses, both quantitative and qualitative, if we are to improve our understanding of the social construction of individual attitudes in siting conflicts.
* In the construction of the risk attitude index, statement b, d and f were reversely recorded.
In the construction of the risk attitude index, statements 2, 4 and 6 were reversely recorded.
The construction of a reliable Brazilian Attitudes to Aging Questionnaire is important for assessing cultural specificities of aging in a transcultural perspective and can be applied in international cross-cultural investigations running less risk of cultural bias.
Homophobic abuse is rife in Britain's building industry, with the majority of lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) workers confronted with derogatory comments, according to the first ever survey of attitudes towards sexuality across the construction sector.
Although obvious correlations were not found between individual items of concern and attitudes to construction of a facility, the discriminant analysis indicated dominant concerns of attitudes, but the disagreement between actual impact and citizens were found.
Similarly, Hood and Martin ([2007]) draw on the Attitude system to argue that academic writers utilised inscribed attitude in the construction of arguments within their research.
Efforts were needed "to change public attitudes regarding the construction of large-scale overhead transmission infrastructure," it said; otherwise, "alternative solutions" to overhead lines over the Pyrenees, like underground and underwater cables, "may need to be considered".
This study does not aim to understand the individual process of attitude construction or to prove the relationship between attitudes and actual behavior.
One reason for this may be that the construction of reliable items and subscales to explore attitudes is more complex and difficult when it comes to sensitive topics such as diversity than is the case for constructing items about facts.
