authoritarian personality

• Dispositional explanations?

  obedience caused by peoples own traits and characteristics rather than that of the environment.
• what is the authoritarian personality

  Ther authoritarian personality is a collection of traits  including hoslitity towards lower status. Strict adherence to social rules and hierarchies, Obedient towards people of a higher status,
• how is it developed?

  • developed from strict or rigid parenting
  • adorno found those with high scores tended to have grown up with the authoritarian parenting style.
• how to measure

  The assessment of authoritarian personality is using the californian f scale, made by adorno to measure the different components of the authoritarian personality including statements which were common of an authoritarian personality
• Altmeyer

  • Altmeyer refined this concept to the idea of right wing authoritarianism who possessed 3 characteristics predisposing them to obedience
  • conventionalism,
  • authoritarian aggression
  • authoritarian submission.
  • He tested when people gave shocks to themselves and there was a significant correlation between rwa score and intensity of shock they were willing to give themselves.
• • Elms and milgram also explored this
  • 20 defiant and 20 obedient measuring authoritarian scores using f scale + asked them questions about childhood and parent relationship.
  • He found that obedient scored higher on f scaleObedient decribed their fathers more negatively and showed admiration for the authority figure which support the obedient partciipants having traits consistent with the authoritarain peronality