title: Impulsiveness, attitude to authority, and gender.
abstract: This article examined the relationship between impulsiveness and attitudes toward institutional authority among Australian secondary school students. Reliable questionnaire measures of these constructs were completed by 48 boys and 57 girls, about 14 years of age. Correlations between impulsiveness and attitude to authority differed between the sexes, with a significant negative correlation of -.43 being obtained for boys only.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Social Research, School of Social Studies, University of South Australia, Adelaide.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rigby
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Slee
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mak
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D001290:Attitude; D001315:Australia; D001318:Authoritarianism; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007175:Impulsive Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory