Multiple-factorial questionnaire for the express diagnostics of economic attitudes: the results of the development

Abstract

In the article the results of the development of the scaled multiple-factorial questionnaire for the purpose of express diagnostics of economic attitudes are explained. Need of creation of the convenient research tools allowing to reveal features of economic attitudes is proved. The procedure of the development and check on reliability and validity of the questionnaire is provided. The items of the questionnaire reflect the attitudes connected to different types of economic Factor of attitudes of economic activity", "Factor of attitudes of economic planning and financial optimism", "Factor of trust to economic actors and institutes", "Factor of social and economic comparing". Significant correlations of indices of subjective economic wellbeing (V.A. Hashchenko's technique) with economic attitudes (the author questionnaire) were confirmation of the external validity of this new method on the students sample.