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Right-Wing Authoritarianism Relative To Traditional Western Thinking And Locus Of Control

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Psychological Reports

Volume

82

Issue

1

First Page

83

Last Page

86

Abstract

The relationships among scores on right-wing authoritarianism, locus of control, and beliefs relative to traditional Eastern and Western thinking were examined. Eastern thinking is defined as the monistic perspective common to Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, and Confucianism, while Western thinking reflects the dualism intrinsic to the Judeo-Christian and ancient Greek underpinnings of European and American thought. Among 72 male and 130 female undergraduate students, women scoring high on the Right-Wing Authoritarianism Scale tended to score more Western on the East-West Questionnaire. Subjects scoring high on the Right-Wing Authoritarianism Scale, especially the men, tended to score internal on locus of control. Performance on the Right-Wing Authoritarianism Scale could be used as a weak predictor of the scores obtained on the Locus of Control Scale. Duckitt's conceptualization of authoritarianism as an aspect of group cohesiveness served as the theoretical framework.

Department

Department of Psychology

Original Publication Date

1-1-1998

DOI of published version

10.2466/pr0.1998.82.1.83

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