Abstract
Summary Several months prior to the official renaming of Rhodesia as Zimbabwe, Ray's directiveness scale, which measures authoritarian behavior, and Rosenberg's self-esteem inventory were administered to a sample of 160 white first-year and third-year Rhodesian and South African university students. Respondents ranged in age from 17 years to 23 years. The hypothesis that third-year male students would be more authoritarian than their third-year female counterparts, and that this difference would not exist in the first-year level, was confirmed. The hypothesis that male students would have significantly greater self-esteem than the females was not supported. These findings are accounted for in terms of involvement in the antiterrorist military effort. An unexpected finding was that the Rhodesian females had a significantly lower self-esteem score than the South African female students.
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