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Personality and emotional correlates of right-wing authoritarianism

Social Behavior and Personality, 2000 by Bulter, J Corey

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Prior to this study, one of the most comprehensive investigations of the authoritarian personality structure was conducted by Kline and Cooper (1984). These researchers used a factor analytic design which included such instruments as the EPQ the 16PF Test (a questionnaire measuring anality), and the Balanced F scale. Authoritarianism was (as usual) independent of extraversion and neuroticism, but it did cluster with the traits conscientiousness, conservation, rigidity, and "anality" or obsession. These findings are easily interpretable within the context of my data on openness to experience. Measures of mental rigidity (flexibility) are known to correlate with various facets of openness at r= -.30 to r= -.40 (Costa & McCrae, 1992a). Furthermore, the connection between rigidity and authoritarianism was suggested from the very beginning (Adorno et al., 1950) and has been revisited recently by Schultz, Stone, and Christie (1997). My own unpublished data also shows that the RWA Scale correlates with both CPI flexibility 35, p

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Personality and emotional correlates of right-wing authoritarianism

Social Behavior and Personality, 2000 by Bulter, J Corey

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