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On the description of subcultural lexicons: A multidimensional approach.

Author(s) -

Michael Friendly,

Sam Glucksberg

Publication year - 1970

Publication title -

journal of personality and social psychology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.455

H-Index - 369

eISSN - 1939-1315

pISSN - 0022-3514

DOI - 10.1037/h0028626

Subject(s) - psychology , social psychology , cognitive psychology , epistemology , philosophy

Describes the differences in the multidimensional structure of social- and personality-trait words as a function of experience within a specific subculture. 15 freshman and 15 senior college students ascribed 60 trait adjectives, 20 of which belonged to the student slang lexicon, to people they knew. Disassociation measures between pairs of traits were used to provide a multidimensional scaling solution. Axes for the solutions were located by multiple-regression techniques, using data obtained from independent samples of Ss who provided unidimensional scale ratings of the trait words. For the freshman solution, the 2 dimensions of intellectual-academic desirability and social desirablity provided a satisfactory interpretation of the semantic space. For the senior solution, social desirability was also required to provide a satisfactory interpretation. (16 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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