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Civil Liberties Attitudes and Personality Measures: Some Exploratory Research
Author(s) -
Zalkind Sheldon S.,
Gaugler Edward A.,
Schwartz Ronald M.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1975.tb00761.x
Subject(s) - civil liberties , psychology , socioeconomic status , personality , anomie , independence (probability theory) , social psychology , exploratory research , flexibility (engineering) , metropolitan area , anxiety , law , political science , sociology , demography , politics , social science , psychiatry , medicine , mathematics , statistics , population , pathology
Questionnaires containing civil liberties and personality measures were administered in two different years to samples of adults in the metropolitan New York City area. Attitudes towards civil liberties issues consistently correlated positively with flexibility, self‐reliance and independence measures, even when age, education, and socioeconomic status were simultaneously held constant. Anomie and fate control measures had low negative relationships to some but not all civil liberties attitude measures. Anxiety scores did not relate to attitudes.