Primary Social Attitudes of the 1960s and Those of the 1930s

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Abstract
The author reports a duplication, upon the basis of data secured in the 1960s, of factor analyses conducted and reported in the late 1930s and early 1940s. He shows, in general, that the factor structure of three primary social attitudes (Religionism, Humanitarianism, and Nationalism) was in the late 1960s nearly the same as it was in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Differences, when they appear, imply that the structure in the more recent period hangs together more loosely than it did in the earlier period. Finally, he points out that Factors I and III (Religionism and Nationalism) might be collapsed into one factor and (so collapsed) might represent—on the author's specificity-generality continuum—a Level 4 syndrome: namely, Eysenck's tender-tough-minded variable.