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In this research, Katz's functional theory is used to examine theoretical, measurement, and statistical issues surrounding the problems of operationalizing the utilitarian, value-expressive, knowledge, and ego-defensive functions. The results are very encouraging in that they show the functional approach offers a multifaceted, motive-based measure which links motives to attitudes.
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Locander et al. (1978) studied this question.
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