Parental antecedents of authoritarianism.

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While a number of investigators have reported substantial relationships between authoritarianism and various parental attitudes concerning child-rearing practices, interindividual studies utilizing families have been lacking. The F Scale and the Traditional Family Ideology Scale were administered to 108 college students and their parents. It was found that husband and wife pairs correlate significantly with one another in their scores on the 2 tests, the F Scale scores and the TFI scores of male college students are each a positive function of the scores obtained by their fathers on these 2 scales, and there is a significant relationship between authoritarianism in mothers and in their offspring of both sexes. The low magnitude of the various relationships indicates that the major portion of the variance in both authoritarianism and traditional family ideology is a function of factors other than parental standing on these 2 variables. In addition, the greater predictability of the male students suggests the possibility of differences in the antecedents of authoritarianism for the 2 sexes. (19 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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