Initial validation of the Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale (GCBS) identified five correlated factors: Government Malfeasance, Malevolent Global Conspiracies, Extraterrestrial Cover-up, Personal Well-being and Control of Information. Despite replications of this structure, ensuing research, mostly using translated versions of the GCBS (i.e., Persian and Japanese), has reported factorial alternatives. Concomitantly, researchers postulated that belief in conspiracies was higher in historically troubled societies (e.g., Serbia). To further assess the cultural stability of the five correlated factor solution and test the assumption that GCBS scores are affected by social-political instability, a Serbian adaptation of the GCBS was assessed alongside the standard English language version. Data were collected from Serbian (n = 259, 44.40% males) and UK samples (n = 402, 52.25% males). Within samples, confirmatory factor analysis replicated the five-factor solution. Additionally, national and gender invariance was confirmed. National comparisons (Serbia vs. UK) revealed that the Serbian sample scored higher on Government Malfeasance, Malevolent Global Conspiracies, Personal Well-being and Control of Information, whereas the UK sample scored higher on Extraterrestrial Cover-up. There were no gender differences on GCBS factors. Findings indicated that while the Serbian GCBS was interpreted similarly to the GCBS, societal factors influenced endorsement of belief facets.

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评估整个社会的阴谋主义信仰：验证通用阴谋主义信仰量表（GCBS）的塞尔维亚版本

通用阴谋论信念量表（GCBS）的初步验证确定了五个相关因素：政府渎职、恶意全球阴谋、外星人掩盖、个人福祉和信息控制。尽管复制了这种结构，但随后的研究（主要使用 GCBS 的翻译版本（即波斯语和日语））报告了阶乘替代方案。与此同时，研究人员推测，在历史上陷入困境的社会（例如塞尔维亚），人们对阴谋的信仰更高。为了进一步评估五相关因素解决方案的文化稳定性并测试 GCBS 分数受社会政治不稳定影响的假设，我们对 GCBS 的塞尔维亚语版本与标准英语版本一起进行了评估。数据收集自塞尔维亚（n  = 259，44.40% 男性）和英国样本（n  = 402，52.25% 男性）。在样本中，验证性因素分析复制了五因素解决方案。此外，国家和性别的不变性也得到了证实。国家比较（塞尔维亚与英国）显示，塞尔维亚样本在政府渎职、恶意全球阴谋、个人福祉和信息控制方面得分较高，而英国样本在外星人掩盖方面得分较高。GCBS 因素没有性别差异。调查结果表明，虽然塞尔维亚 GCBS 的解释与 GCBS 类似，但社会因素影响了对信仰方面的认可。