Authoritarian Personality Research Articles

Authoritarianism, Ethnic Affiliation, Level of Religiosity, and Authority-Exercising Styles of Educational Instructors in Juvenile Correctional Institutions

This study investigated authoritarian personality, ethnicity, and religiosity as predictors of educational instructors’ authority-exercising style in disciplinary encounters in juvenile correctional institutions. Participants were all 320 educational instructors from all 56 juvenile correctional institutions in Israel. Research findings indicated that educational instructors with a high level of authoritarianism responded with more power assertion and withdrawal during disciplinary encounters, whereas instructors with a low level of authoritarianism responded with induction during these events. In addition, ethnicity and level of religiosity predicted exercising of authority. Arab as well as Jewish religious instructors were more inclined to respond with power assertion during disciplinary encounters. The present study attempts to interconnect personality and environmental and behavioral characteristics and calls for follow-up research on educational instructors’ behaviors in juvenile correctional institutions.

The Authoritarian Personality in Emerging Adulthood: Longitudinal Analysis Using Standardized Scales, Observer Ratings, and Content Coding of the Life Story.

Three different methods (a standardized scale, an observer-based Q-sort, and content coding of narratives) were used to study the continuity of authoritarianism longitudinally in emerging and young adults. Authoritarianism was assessed in a Canadian sample (N = 92) of men and women at ages 19 and 32 with Altemeyer's (1996) Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) Scale. In addition, components of the authoritarian personality were assessed at age 26 through Q-sort observer methods (Block, 2008) and at age 32 through content coding of life stories. Age 19 authoritarianism predicted the Q-sort and life story measures of authoritarianism. Two hierarchical regression analyses showed that the Q-sort and life story measures of authoritarianism also predicted the RWA scale at age 32 beyond educational level and parental status, and even after the inclusion of age 19 RWA. Differences and similarities in the pattern of correlates for the Q-sort and life story measures are discussed, including the overall lack of results for authoritarian aggression. Content in narratives may be the result of emerging adult authoritarianism and may serve to maintain levels of authoritarianism in young adulthood.

Fetische, Körper und Ressentiment

The social function of violence was described from the early beginnings of social research – not only in studies of in prejudice. But with the study Autoritat und Familie, which was published in 1936, and The Authoritarian Personality, which was published in 1950, the strong connection between violence and subjectivation was figured out as a critique of the society. In this article the thesis of a ,,secondary authoritarian“ dynamic is developed. Firstly, the empirical findings of the ,,Mitte“-Studies (Center-Studies), a longitudinal research project measuring right wing extremist attitudes in Germany, will be presented to underpin in second step the function of a strong economy: as an authority economy is using force to integrate each individual into modern society. In this understanding right-wing extremist attitudes give a deeper insight into a society as well as into an individual's prejudices. The society itself is highlighted with psychoanalytical social psychology: it is not research in individual behaviour but in the dynamic of a market society. With the concept of the ,Secondary Authoritarianism', the contemporary social dynamic could be understood as failed process of secularisation.

Философские и психолого-педагогические аспекты формирования авторитарной личности в юношеском возрасте

Философские и психолого-педагогические аспекты формирования авторитарной личности в юношеском возрасте

Another Look at Moral Foundations Theory: Do Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation Explain Liberal-Conservative Differences in “Moral” Intuitions?

Moral foundations theorists propose that the moral domain should include not only “liberal” ethics of justice and care but also ostensibly “conservative” concerns about the virtues of ingroup loyalty, obedience to authority, and enforcement of purity standards. This proposal clashes with decades of research in political psychology connecting the latter set of characteristics to “the authoritarian personality.” We demonstrate that liberal-conservative differences in moral intuitions are statistically mediated by authoritarianism and social dominance orientation, so that conservatives’ greater valuation of ingroup, authority, and purity concerns is attributable to higher levels of authoritarianism, whereas liberals’ greater valuation of fairness and harm avoidance is attributable to lower levels of social dominance. We also find that ingroup, authority, and purity concerns are positively associated with intergroup hostility and support for discrimination, whereas concerns about fairness and harm avoidance are negatively associated with these variables. These findings might lead some to question the wisdom and appropriateness of efforts to “broaden” scientific conceptions of morality in such a way that preferences based on authoritarianism and social dominance are treated as moral—rather than amoral or even immoral—and suggest that the explicit goal of incorporating conservative ideology into the study of moral psychology (in order to increase ideological diversity) may lead researchers astray.

Defining the Revolutionary Totalitarian Personality: The Parallel Lives of Adolf Hitler and Fidel Castro

This article compares the surprisingly similar personalities and political trajectories of Adolf Hitler and Fidel Castro in order to define a specific, ‘revolutionary totalitarian’ type of personality. This is a union of authoritarian personality, revolutionary tendencies, and genuine charisma. Moreover, it can develop only in a modern context allowing the creation of an effective personality cult. Politically, its outcome is a revolutionary transformation of state and society leading to the establishment of a new system of values paralleled by the imposition of a new, totalitarian order. Ironically, the consolidation of the new regime leads to the complete dissolution of the leader’s revolutionary tendency, which is preserved only in foreign policy. There, however, it can lead to extremely serious military consequences.

Mind, politics, and the academyThe Open Mind Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature Jamie Cohen-Cole University of Chicago Press, 2014. 405 pp.

Mind, politics, and the academyThe Open Mind Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature <i>Jamie Cohen-Cole</i> University of Chicago Press, 2014. 405 pp.

How Vladimir Putin’s Divorce Story Was Constructed and Received, or When the President Divorced His Wife and Married the Country Instead

When the Russian president divorced his wife in 2013, social media crowds coined plenty of the Internet memes to interpret the news. Anastasia Denisova, Doctoral Researcher at CAMRI, examined the framing of the story in traditional and new media and came to the surprising findings.

The theme of indivisibility in the post-war struggle against prejudice in the United States

ABSTRACTWhitfield's essay seeks to identify and explain a tendency that emerged in the United States in the 1940s and extended through the 1950s. It was then that a notion became commonplace, especially among liberals, that the victims of prejudice were interchangeable and that bigotry was undifferentiated. Before the 1940s, the problem of prejudice was not widely believed to be urgent; but the war against the Third Reich heightened awareness of the price of an irrational hostility to minorities. American liberals in particular came to the understanding that bigotry was indivisible; and, for its objects, the cards of identity could easily be shuffled. Whether the victims were Jews or Negroes or homosexuals, the hatred that they elicited appeared to be formed without making any distinctions among them. Evidence can be found in the culture of those two decades, in novels, plays and films. The unitary view of the character of prejudice had some support in social science, including in the authoritative volume The Authoritarian Personality. The theory would also be reflected in a major shift in the agenda of Jewish civil rights organizations, which redefined their mission as promoting the democratic rights of all minorities rather than the particular interests of American Jews. This distinctive tendency vanished in the 1960s, however. One reason for the change was a fuller appreciation of the hostility that minorities could harbour towards other minorities. The realization also deepened of the singular vulnerability of black Americans under the pressure of racism, which demonstrated a tenacity as well as a proclivity for violence that had been largely absent from other forms of bigotry. Finally, a broader legitimation of difference itself emerged in the 1960s to bury the notion that minorities were fungible.

De heilige plicht van de gehoorzaamheid - De karaktertekening in de Duitslandromans van Louis Ferron tegen de achtergrond van het concept van de autoritaire persoonlijkheid

This article discusses five historical novels by Louis Ferron: Gekkenschemer (1974), Het stierenoffer (1975), De keisnijder van Fichtenwald (1976) De gallische ziekte (1979) and Plicht! (1981). They deal with German history, particularly that of the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. This article shows that the characters in these novels can be viewed in the light of Theodor Adorno's theory on the Authoritarian Personality.

The Roles of Authoritarian Personality and Popularity in School Bullying

The Roles of Authoritarian Personality and Popularity in School Bullying

이중몰입의 영향에 대한 권위주의성격과 ‘그들과 우리’ 태도의 조절효과

The purpose of this study is to examine the moderating effect of authoritarian personality andthem-and-us attitude on the effect of dual commitment. Despite the progress of dual commitment studies, the effect of dual commitment relevant to industrial relations and the moderating effect in relation with dual commitment were not studied. This study considered the limitation of previous study and the help to the union and the company. This study built a exploratory model that there is causal relationship of dual commitment to union-related behavioral orientation and the moderating effect of authoritarian personality and them-and-us attitude on the effect of dual commitment. To test hypotheses empirically, the data was collected from 425 union members in Busan. The study showed following results. 1) Dual commitment had the positive effect on the union-related behavioral orientation significantly. 2) Trade union member's authoritarian personality played the role as the negative moderating variable in relation with the effect of dual commitment on the union-related behavioral orientation. 3) Trade union member's them-and-us attitude played the role as the positive moderating variable in relation with the effect of dual commitment on the union-related behavioral orientation. The implication of these results to the union and the company, the limitation of this study and the direction of future study were suggested.

The effects of physicians’ personal characteristics on innovation readiness in Taiwan’s hospitals

This paper examines innovation in the healthcare industry in Taiwan. Specifically, we looked at how two critical factors (physicians’ creative traits and authoritarian personality) are related to innovation readiness within the medical care system in Taiwan. We argue that innovation readiness is the cognitive precursor to the behaviors supporting innovation. Additionally, we also examine the moderating effects of hospital types (teaching versus non-teaching hospitals) on these relationships. Data from 417 physicians belonging to 26 hospitals is used to test our hypotheses. Results show that the degree of innovation readiness a physician perceives is associated with both creative traits and authoritarian personality. With regard to the organizational variable, the evidence shows that of the specific kind of hospital is far less important than the people who work there when it comes to innovation readiness.

The Relationship between Authoritarian Personality and Liking of Children Levels of Teacher Candidates

The aim of the study is to investigate relationship between authoritarian personality and liking of children levels of teacher candidates. In accordance with this purpose, “Barnett Liking of Children Scale” adapted to Turkish by Duyan and Gelbal (2008) and “Authoritarian Personality Scale” was adapted by Hasta (2002) were used to collect data. The sample is composed of 152 teacher candidates (62 Male, 90 Female) who study in faculty of education at Ondokuz Mayıs University, were selected via random sampling method. The data was collected in the beginning of the fall semester of 2012-2013 academic year. Independent variables of the research was determined as gender. The data was analyzed by using the tests are Pearson Correlation Coefficient and Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA). The research findings show that there was negative and significant relationship between authoritarian personality and liking of children levels of teacher candidates. In addition, found that there was no significant differences between authoritarian personality and liking of children levels of teacher candidates with respect to gender.

In Defense of Mainstream Conservatism: A Response to Crouse and Stalker

This article provides a response to Crouse and Stalker's reply to my commentary (Thomas, 2013) on their article titled “Do Right‐Wing Authoritarian Beliefs Originate from Psychological Conflict?” (Psychoanalytic Psychology, 24, 25–44). The authors' critical remarks regarding my commentary are addressed, and recommendations are offered for a more cautious use of psychoanalytic theory and results derived from The Right‐Wing Authoritarianism Scale (Altemeyer, 1998) for labeling persons with mainstream conservative political beliefs as being “psychopathological” or “right‐wing authoritarians.” Such assertions regarding the personality characteristics of political conservatives are particularly troubling, since the authors' conclusions were purely speculative, and they collected neither clinical nor empirical data on patients or research subjects with so‐called right‐wing authoritarian personalities to support their speculations.

사회복지 업무 종사자의 HIV/AIDS 감염인에 대한 신체적･사회적 거리감

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feeling of distance of social work practitioners for people living with HIV/AIDS(PLWHA) and to identify related factors. Methods: A total of 409 data were collected as convenience sampling from social welfare service providers. Independent variables were socio-demographic data, AIDS related knowledge, authoritarian personality, prejudice for minority(handicapped, women, foreigner, old aged), cultural competency. Data were analyzed by t-test, ANOVA, multiple regression analysis were conducted. Results: Multiple regression model was developed by integrating the significant variables from univariate analysis. Significant factors of physical distance were social prejudice against handicapped, knowledge about AIDS and critical awareness/knowledge about other culture. And significant factors of social distance were social prejudice against handicapped, knowledge about AIDS, authoritarian personality, critical awareness/knowledge about other culture. At last, we found that social prejudice against handicapped was the biggest factor for physical distance and authoritarian personality was the biggest factor for social distance of social work practitioners. Conclusions: The area of social services for PLWHA have to be expanded. Physical and social distance of professionals to provide services to PLWHA and factors affecting it is necessary to continue research. In addition, on the basis of these findings, specific training programs is need to be developed.

Sacral Suicides, Unpunishable Killings, Rites of Power

Studies of violence relating to the Middle East have sometimes done more harm than they have explained. Like the intended effects of the U.S. military's doctrine of “rapid dominance,” compared by its proponents to “tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes . . . famine and disease,” violence in the Middle East would appear to be “incomprehensible,” though less to “the people at large” who are affected by it than to its prolific theoreticians. Over the past two decades, much of the literature on the region as a “cauldron of war”—generating five times its share (by population size) of total global conflict since the mid-20th century—has tended to update and propagate well-known mythologies of primitivism, authoritarian personalities, and ancient hatreds. The significance of such mythopoeia has been its capacity to realize, at least in part, the conditions of its own truthfulness by shaping perception and policy, framing and enabling the infliction of a new wave of warfare on the region. Much contemporary writing on post–Cold War global crisis, the geopolitics of instability, regional conflict, and the future of warfare has not only signally failed to understand the dynamics of the Middle East but has actively contributed to the spread of violence in the region.

Effect of Authoritarian Personality on Cultural Competence Among Social Service Worker - Focused on the Mediating Effect of Social Prejudice Against Minorities -

본 연구는 사회복지 실무자의 권위주의적 성격, 사회적 소수자에 대한 편견, 문화적 역량 간의 관계에 대한 모형을 가정하고 검증하기 위한 연구로, 409명의 조사 자료를 분석하였다. 권위주의적 성격을 독립변수, 사회적 소수자에 대한 편견을 매개변수, 문화적 역량을 종속변수로 하여 모형을 구성하였으며, 가설분석을 위해 AMOS 18.0을 활용하였다.BR 분석 결과 첫째, 권위주의적 성격과 문화적 역량 사이에 사회적 소수자에 대한 편견의 매개효과에 대해 독립변수의 직접경로가 포함되지 않은 완전매개모형의 적합도가 높은 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 권위주의적 성격은 문화적 역량에 직접 효과는 통계적 유의성이 없었으며, 사회적 소수자에 대한 편견을 매개로 한 간접효과가 검증되었다. 본 연구 결과는 향후 문화적 역량강화를 위한 교육에 실무자의 자기인식의 중요성을 강조하는 근거로 활용될 것으로 기대된다.

Corrective Note

Political PsychologyVolume 34, Issue 5 p. 693-694 CORRECTIVE NOTEFree Access Corrective Note This article corrects the following: What Is and Is Not Ethnocentrism? A Conceptual Analysis and Political Implications Boris Bizumic, John Duckitt, Volume 33Issue 6Political Psychology pages: 887-909 First Published online: July 30, 2012 First published: 16 September 2013 https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12076Citations: 1AboutSectionsPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Our original article (Bizumic & Duckitt, 2012) argued that the first printed use of the concept of ethnocentrism was probably in an article by McGee (1900). This deviates from the almost universally held view that Sumner (1906) coined the concept of ethnocentrism (e.g., Adorno et al., 1950; LeVine & Campbell, 1972; Tajfel, 1982). A further review of early conceptual history suggested that both of these views are incorrect and that there are additional early sources discussing ethnocentrism. It was, however, Ludwig Gumplowicz who may have coined the concept, and he used it in at least seven publications, written in German and Polish from 1879 until 1905. Gumplowicz, one of the fathers of sociology, had influenced Sumner and was cited at times by him. Sumner (1906), however, failed to acknowledge that Gumplowicz and other social scientists had used the concept of ethnocentrism before him. Accordingly, later social scientists who studied ethnocentrism had completely ignored Gumplowicz and others who wrote on ethnocentrism before Sumner (1906) and gave Sumner an undue credit for inventing the concept. This issue and its implications have been elaborated upon in Bizumic (2013; Who coined the concept of ethnocentrism? A brief report [unpublished manuscript]). References Adorno, T. W., Frenkel-Brunswik, E., Levinson, D. J., & Sanford, R. N. (1950). The authoritarian personality. New York: Harper and Row. Bizumic, B., & Duckitt, J. (2012). What is and is not ethnocentrism? A conceptual analysis and political implications. Political Psychology, 33, 887– 909. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9221.2012.00907.x McGee, William J. (1900). Primitive numbers. Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Report, 19, 821– 881. LeVine, R. A., & Campbell, D. T. (1972). Ethnocentrism. New York, NY: John Wiley. Tajfel, H. (1982). Social psychology of intergroup relations. Annual Review of Psychology, 33, 1– 39. Sumner, W. G. (1906). Folkways: A study of the sociological importance of usages, manners, customs, mores, and morals.New York, NY: Mentor. Citing Literature Volume34, Issue5October 2013Pages 693-694 ReferencesRelatedInformation

A Replication of the Specter of Authoritarianism among Criminal Justice Majors: Does Race Matter?

Authoritarian personality types possess characteristics that are especially troubling if found among criminal justice (CJ) professionals. Recent research found significantly higher Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) scores in male college students majoring in CJ than in male nonmajors as well as significantly higher scores among lower division students than their upper division counterparts. However, the results of that study were limited because the sample was predominantly Caucasian. Given the growth in African-American CJ professionals and the special salience of race, it is important to examine whether the findings can be generalized to African-Americans. In order to explore that issue the current study replicates that research with a largely African-American sample drawn from a historically black college/university (HBCU). Results indicate that, unlike the findings in the original study, CJ majors at the HBCU did not have statistically higher RWA scores. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.