+Activism Orientation Scale

Corning & Myers (2002)

Topic: Fairness, Equity, & Political Beliefs

Instructions: 

Please respond to the following questions by selecting how likely it is that you will engage in each of the following activities in the future.

Response Options:  

1. Extremely unlikely
2. Unlikely
3. Likely
4. Extremely likely

Items:

1. Give a lecture or talk about a social or political issue
2. Go out of your way to collect information on a social or political issue
3. Present facts to contest another person’s social or political statement
4. Confront jokes, statements, or innuendos that opposed a particular group’s cause
5. Distribute information representing a particular social or political group’s cause
6. Attend a talk on a particular group’s social or political concerns
7. Try to change a friend's or acquaintance's mind about a social or political issue
8. Try to change a relative's mind about a social or political issue
9. Participate in discussion groups designed to discuss issues or solutions of a particular social or political group

Citation:

Link to PDF:

https://www.midss.org/sites/default/files/aoslettertousers.pdf Links to an external site.

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