Predicting authoritarian behaviour: analysis of three measures
Personality and Individual DifferencesPublished 1 January 1984
Patrick C. L. Heaven
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Abstract
This study investigated the behavioural validity of three recent measures of authoritarianism, namely, the Right-wing Authoritarianism scale (RWA; Altemeyer, 1981), the Ray (1972) BF scale, and the Ray (1976) Directiveness (DIR) scale. The best predictors of various dimensions of authoritarian behaviour were the RWA and DIR scales, while the BF scale was found to only predict conservative behaviour. These findings are discussed in the light of current research into authoritarianism.
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