Predicting alienation in a sample of Nigerian Igbo subjects.
Seeman in 1959 suggested that alienation is a multidimensional concept. Using two aspects of Seeman's concept of alienation, powerlessness and social alienation, and two concepts derived from Lachar's 1978 Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Cookbook, emotional and self-alienation, the present work was undertaken to ascertain which concept will more likely predict feelings of alienation. A stepwise multiple regression showed that among 160 Nigerian (Igbo) subjects the feeling of powerlessness predicted alienation more than did the other concept.
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Department of Psychology, Awka Campus, Anambra State, Nigeria.
D000328:Adult; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D009549:Nigeria; D010556:Personality Tests; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012059:Rejection, Psychology; D012649:Self Concept; D012918:Social Alienation / Q000523:psychology