Revisiting general and specific union beliefs: The union-voting intentions of professionals

Abstract

We examine how general and specific beliefs about unions influence the union-voting intentions of professional employees. Previous research, mainly on nonprofessionals, has found that both beliefs are significant in predicting voting behavior, but that specific beliefs have the stronger effect. Using a structural equation model, we found a causal relationship between general and specific beliefs, and that the total effect of general beliefs is nearly three times as strong as that of specific beliefs. © 2006 Regents of the University of California.