Perceptual and personality variables related to opinion leadership in fashion.
102 randomly selected university women were administered measures of opinion leadership in fashion, field dependence, locus of control, and anxiety. Product-moment correlation was used to test the association between variables. Opinion leadership in fashion was positively related to debilitating anxiety and negatively related to facilitating anxiety. External locus of control was positively related to debilitating anxiety and negatively related to facilitating anxiety. No significant correlation was found between opinion leadership in fashion and field dependence or locus of control or between field dependence and locus of control or anxiety.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety; D003020:Clothing; D005260:Female; D005364:Field Dependence-Independence; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007857:Leadership; D010551:Personality