Correlates of Student Political Activism and Ideology
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Abstract
This study of student political orientations treats attitudes and activism as conceptually and empirically independent, does not confound demographic variables in the subject groupings, and focuses on the dimensions of activism and attitudes and not specifically on left activists. Yale freshmen ( N = 164) were classified into four ideology groupings and two levels of activism. Patterns of socialization and personality correlates of activism and ideology are presented and related to earlier studies. The absence of significant interactions and the concordance of some correlates of activism and ideology are discussed.