In terms of known-groups validity, men had, respectively, more and less positive attitudes toward war and peace than women. Scores on the translated scale were unrelated to socially desirable responding. Unexpectedly however, attitudes toward war were positively related to nonegalitarian ideological beliefs and were not related to personal distress. Furthermore, both attitudes toward peace and war were, respectively, negatively and positively related to (a right-wing) political orientation. On the other hand, antecedents of attitudes toward war included national identification and authoritarian ideological beliefs, and consequences included intentions to engage in pro-war behaviors. On the one hand, antecedents of attitudes toward peace included egalitarian ideological beliefs and empathic concern for others, and consequences included intentions to engage in pro-peace behaviors. Confirmatory factor and criterion validity analyses confirmed that attitudes toward peace and war, although negatively related, are distinct in terms of their antecedents and consequences.
We present an attempt at validating the French version of their 16-item Attitudes toward Peace and War Scale (APWS) on five distinct (mainly Belgian) French-speaking samples (total N = 808).
(2013) have recently shown that attitudes towards peace and war reflect two distinct constructs rather than two poles of a single dimension.
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