TY - JOUR
AU1 - Freedman, Mervin
AU2 - Webster, Harold
AU3 - Sanford, Nevitt
AB - Published as a separate and in The Journal of PsychoIogy, 1956, 41, 315-322. A STUDY OF AUTHORITARIANISM AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY* Mary Conover Mellon Foundation, Vassar College MERVIN FREEDMAN, HAROLD WEBSTER, AND NEVITT SANFORD~ A. PROBLEM The Authoritarian Personality (1) left the question of the relation between psychopathology and authoritarianism or ethnocentrism quite up in the air. Thus, Maria Levinson, in concluding her special study of 121 clinic patients, writes: ‘‘Our investigation shows that one is likely to find people with more or less severe psychological disturbances in the high, low, and middle quartiles [of the distribution of scores on the Ethnocentrism scale] although we can- not say in what proportions. It even suggests the possibility that most dis- turbed people will be found in the middle quartiles” (1, p. 968). In this light it seems a little odd that one should encounter so frequently the notion that The Authoritarian Personality regarded high scorers on au- thoritarianism as mentally unhealthy, low scorers as healthy. Masling (4), for example, expresses this view and then reports that his results show no relations between authoritarianism and certain measures of psychopathology. (2) has written: “Shils has already stressed the More recently Almond Marxist presuppositions of 
TI - A Study of Authoritarianism and Psychopathology
JF - The Journal of Psychology
DO - 10.1080/00223980.1956.9713006
DA - 1956-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/a-study-of-authoritarianism-and-psychopathology-lDsmM0yM6j
SP - 315
EP - 322
VL - 41
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -