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The authors developed a tool to measure the policy advocacy behavior of nonprofit human service agencies. Organizational demographic and policy advocacy behavior data were collected from 43 nonprofit human service agencies.  The researchers determined that the Policy Advocacy Behavior Scale will be a useful tool to identify social work practice models that integrate policy advocacy methods.

 

1. What are some of the characteristics of non-profit agencies that tend to engage in advocacy?

2. What are some of the core dimensions of advocacy behavior?

3. How did the authors measure the validity and reliability of this tool?

 

 

Although previous research has indicated that political conservatives appear more intolerant toward a variety of groups than political liberals, studies conducted by these authors indicate that liberals and conservatives express similar levels of intolerance toward ideologically dissimilar and threatening groups. 

 

1. How does motivated information processing impact an individual’s ability to form impressions? 

2. How does worldview violation lead to intolerance?

3. What are some of the issues that would benefit from further exploration, based on the findings of these authors?