| Abstract: |
Used correlational and factor analysis to investigate the interrelationships among 14 measures of alienation (e.g., Dean's powerlessness, normlessness, and social isolation scales), anomia, (e.g., Sroles's anomia scale), authoritarianism (e.g., the Fascism Scale), status concern (e.g., a 10-item scale developed by W. C. Kaufman, 1975), and the tendency to discriminate (e.g., an 11-item scale developed by the current author, 1971). Data were obtained from 436 university students. Results of the correlational analysis offer general support for the hypotheses that the alienation measures would be moderately interrelated, that authoritarianism would be weakly related to alienation but strongly related to tendency to discriminate, and that status concern would be related to both authoritarianism and the tendency to discriminate but insignificantly related to the alienation scales. Factor analysis revealed 10 dimensions underlying the 14 scales. |