Ability, Acquiescence, and “Authoritarianism”
- 1 June 1958
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 4 (3) , 687-697
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1958.4.3.687
Abstract
A modified form of the California F Scale was administered to 256 Naval Air Cadets, a battery of specific ability and personality measures was also given. Separate scores were obtained from the modified F scale for acquiescent response set and authoritarian content. The set score had substantial reliability (.50), but the reliability of the authoritarian score (.14) suggests extreme heterogeneity of content. Acquiescence and authoritarian content were essentially uncorrelated for the present sample. Significant negative correlations were obtained between acquiescence and measures of Verbal Knowledge, General Reasoning, and Dedution; significant, but low negative correlations were obtained between authoritarian content and General Reasoning and Verbal knowledge.".This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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