For 102 college students and 102 “experts” (professionals) inspection of unstandardized paths (LISREL) shows different relationships between Rokeach's terminal values and the construct of liberalism-conservatism, relationships being somewhat greater for “experts” than students (“novices”). The observation was confirmed by structural equation analysis.
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