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Revisiting the Measurement of Anomie.

  • Teymoori A University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
  • Jetten J University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
  • Bastian B University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Ariyanto A University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia.
  • Autin F University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • Ayub N Institute of Business Management, Karachi, Pakistan.
  • Badea C Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, Paris, France.
  • Besta T University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland.
  • Butera F University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • Costa-Lopes R University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Cui L East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
  • Fantini C Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
  • Finchilescu G University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • Gaertner L University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America.
  • Gollwitzer M Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
  • Gómez Á Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, UNED, Madrid, Spain.
  • González R Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
  • Hong YY Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
  • Jensen DH Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
  • Karasawa M Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.
  • Kessler T University of Jena, Jena, Thuringia, Germany.
  • Klein O Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
  • Lima M Federal University of Sergipe, Sergipe, Brazil.
  • Mähönen TA University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
  • Megevand L ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Morton T University of Exeter, Exeter, England, United Kingdom.
  • Paladino P University of Trento, Trento, Italy.
  • Polya T Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Ruza A Daugavpils University, Daugavpils, Latvia.
  • Shahrazad W National University of Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia.
  • Sharma S Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India.
  • Torres AR Federal University of Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil.
  • van der Bles AM University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
  • Wohl M Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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  • 2016-07-08
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  • PloS one. - 2016
English Sociologists coined the term "anomie" to describe societies that are characterized by disintegration and deregulation. Extending beyond conceptualizations of anomie that conflate the measurements of anomie as 'a state of society' and as a 'state of mind', we disentangle these conceptualizations and develop an analysis and measure of this phenomenon focusing on anomie as a perception of the 'state of society'. We propose that anomie encompasses two dimensions: a perceived breakdown in social fabric (i.e., disintegration as lack of trust and erosion of moral standards) and a perceived breakdown in leadership (i.e., deregulation as lack of legitimacy and effectiveness of leadership). Across six studies we present evidence for the validity of the new measure, the Perception of Anomie Scale (PAS). Studies 1a and 1b provide evidence for the proposed factor structure and internal consistency of PAS. Studies 2a-c provide evidence of convergent and discriminant validity. Finally, assessing PAS in 28 countries, we show that PAS correlates with national indicators of societal functioning and that PAS predicts national identification and well-being (Studies 3a & 3b). The broader implications of the anomie construct for the study of group processes are discussed.
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