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A factorial analysis of the authoritarian personality
Author(s) -
Kline Paul,
Cooper Colin
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1984.tb01888.x
Subject(s) - psychology , neuroticism , authoritarianism , extraversion and introversion , personality , big five personality traits , personality test , social psychology , scale (ratio) , psychometrics , developmental psychology , test validity , politics , physics , quantum mechanics , political science , law , democracy
A battery of personality tests measuring authoritarian personality traits together with the EPQ and the Cattell 16PF test were administered to a sample of students in order to identify and locate a factor or factors of authoritarianism. One factor emerged independently of neuroticism and extraversion on which the authoritarian scales loaded ‐ a factor identified as the obsessional personality. Of all the authoritarian tests in this study the Kohn scale and the Wilson‐Patterson C scale appeared to be the most useful.