A study of the structure of public attitudes toward science and technology in China

Based on the data of Chinese public understanding towards science survey in 2010, it has set some items to get general public attitudes toward science and technology. In order to study the features of different people attitudes toward science and technology, we have developed a two-dimensional model of attitude toward science and technology fitted in China which was tested by the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), one dimension was Promise of science factor and the other one was Reservation about science factor. Through this model we got the structure of attitudes toward science and technology of different people in China, which is helpful for science policy-making and other fields of social research.