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- Title
A factorial exploration of authoritarianism and some of its ideological concomitants.
- Authors
O'Neil, W. M.; Levinson, Daniel J.; LEVINSON, D J
- Abstract
A brief statement of the manner of construction of these scales is necessary to complete the setting of the problem addressed in the present study. First, from various sources such as clinical findings and general sociological knowledge, a tentative conception of an ideological constellation is formulated. It will be observed that this procedure will tend to produce a scale with a high degree of item intercorrelation but will not necessarily produce a high degree of scale intercorrelation where several scales have been independently constructed by this method. In general, however, as expected in terms of the hypotheses formulated in the original studies, moderate to high scale intercorrelation is found politico-economic conservatism being the only scale tending to no greater than low-moderate correlation with other scales. There are two ways of accounting for interscale correlation--ways that are by no means mutually exclusive. Although each scale samples a relatively unitary domain of ideas, all scales are manifestations of a common core of personality characteristics. The several scales are over-lapping samplings of only slightly interrelated personality characteristics which do not form a single, unified core or syndrome, each scale consisting of the manifestations of these diverse characteristics in a given sphere.
- Subjects
AUTHORITARIANISM; POLITICAL systems; PERSONALITY; ACCOUNTING; CONSERVATISM; POLITICAL doctrines
- Publication
Journal of Personality, 1954, Vol 22, Issue 4, p449
- ISSN
0022-3506
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-6494.1954.tb01866.x