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 significantcorrelation 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
