The purpose of study was to test the idea that people who are higher in a given trait believe that kids are getting worse in that trait. We started with authoritarianism predicting people believing that kids are getting less respectful of their elders.
Analysis:
estimator = MLR;
ITERATIONS= 10000;
Model:
!pre-registered approach
ktd ON rwac;
!Add in exploratory age and age rwa interaction
!ktd ON age;
!ktd ON agerwac;
Output:
Samp stdYX Residual Cinterval Tech4 Tech1;
The results from the initial analysis showed that participants who are higher in authoritarianism believe more that kids these days are less respectful of their elders that they were (β (1873) = .265, p < .001, 95%CI = .227 to .304).
In an exploratory analysis we also found that older participants believed that kids these days are becoming less respectful of their elders (β (1872) = .161, p < .001, 95%CI = .115 to .206), but no interaction between authoritarianism and age (β = .028, p > .56). Furthermore, conditioning on age, the authoritarianism effect still holds (β (1872) = .246, p < .001, 95%CI = .207 to .285).
