460 17-yr.-old secondary school students in England and Wales completed three social attitude questionnaires. From second-order factor analysis the findings suggest that the aggregate structure of social attitudes is not basically unidimensional and bipolar but rather dualistic, which provides support for a theory of the structure of social attitudes developed by Kerlinger.
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