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Dimensions of Civil Liberties and Personality: Relationships for Measures of Tolerance and Complexity
Author(s) -
Gaugler Edward A.,
Zalkind Sheldon S.
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.tb00762.x
Subject(s) - civil liberties , psychology , personality , anomie , anger , social psychology , independence (probability theory) , dimension (graph theory) , big five personality traits , cognitive dimensions of notations , cognition , law , political science , mathematics , statistics , politics , psychiatry , pure mathematics
Groups of “constricted” ( N = 59) and “nonconstricted” ( N = 49) individuals were selected from a New York City survey sample on the basis of three personality scores: anger expression‐retention, independence‐yielding, and anomie. Civil liberties attitude dimensions were then obtained for each group. Contrary to hypothesis the two groups did not differ on measures of cognitive complexity derived from the factor structures for their civil liberties attitudes, but the nonconstricted group was more tolerant than the constricted group on several dimensions. When controlled for demographic variables, the differences in tolerance held only for a dimension dealing with admitted Communists. Thus, even though the constricted may be less tolerant, for the multidimensional domain of civil liberties attitudes constricted individuals do not have simpler cognitive structures than nonconstricted individuals.