VALUE UNDERPINNINGS OF ANTINUCLEAR POLITICAL ACTIVISM - A CROSS-NATIONAL-STUDY

The purpose of this paper is to assess the relationships between selec ted value types and peace activist behavior in several countries. The participants in this study were college students from Idaho and Califo rnia in the U.S., from London, England, and from Osaka, Japan; adults from the general population in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S.; and physician-activists from New Zealand. Each respondent completed a writ ten questionnaire, which included the Rokeach Value Survey-Form G and the Werner-Roy Peace Activism Scale. A significant relationship was fo und between the universalism value type and pro-freeze activist behavi ors across several of the participant groups.