Conservatism Measures in Papua New Guinea

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A modification of a previously used "catch-phrase" approach in measuring conservatism was used in Papua New Guinea. Results were compared with data collected earlier in New Zealand. Problems of equating New Zealand and Papua New Guinea political affiliation in an effort to gauge subjects' conservatism led to the use of church attendance and divergent thinking abilities as external criteria. Degree of European contact, rapid social change, and homogeneity of religious experience may help account for the unexpected high, but nonlinear, relationship between high divergent thinking and high conservatism.

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