Compare methods

	Child-Rearing Authoritarianism Measure	Anti-Immigrant Prejudice Scale
Field	Political Psychology	Political Psychology
Family	Latent structure	Latent structure
Year of origin	1997	1995
Originator	Stanley Feldman & Karen Stenner	Thomas Pettigrew & Roel Meertens
Type	Indirect dispositional measure of authoritarianism	Attitude scale for prejudice toward immigrants
Seminal source	Feldman, S., & Stenner, K. (1997). Perceived Threat and Authoritarianism. Political Psychology, 18(4), 741-770.	Pettigrew, T. F., & Meertens, R. W. (1995). Subtle and Blatant Prejudice in Western Europe. European Journal of Social Psychology, 25(1), 57-75.
Aliases	Child-Rearing Values Authoritarianism Scale, Feldman-Stenner Authoritarianism Items, Parenting-Values Authoritarianism Measure, Four-Item Child-Rearing Authoritarianism Battery	Subtle and Blatant Prejudice Scale, Pettigrew-Meertens Prejudice Scale, Anti-Immigrant Attitudes Scale, Subtle Prejudice Toward Immigrants Measure
Related	3	3
Summary	The child-rearing values measure, introduced by Stanley Feldman and Karen Stenner in 1997, gauges an authoritarian predisposition indirectly by asking which qualities respondents most want to instill in children. Each item forces a choice between an autonomy-oriented quality (such as independence or curiosity) and a conformity-oriented quality (such as obedience or good manners). Because the questions never mention politics, the resulting four-item index measures a deep disposition toward order and sameness without contaminating it with the political attitudes it is meant to explain, avoiding the tautology that plagued earlier authoritarianism scales.	The Anti-Immigrant Prejudice Scale, developed by Thomas Pettigrew and Roel Meertens in 1995, measures prejudice toward immigrants along two dimensions: blatant prejudice, which is hot, close, and direct, expressing open rejection and perceived threat, and subtle prejudice, which is cool, distant, and indirect, expressing defense of traditional values, denial of positive emotion, and exaggeration of cultural difference. Built from national samples across western Europe, the scale captures the modern, socially acceptable face of anti-immigrant attitudes that overt-prejudice items miss, while its two-factor structure remains the subject of ongoing psychometric debate.