title: Stoicism: its relation to gender, attitudes toward poverty, and reactions to emotive material.
abstract: A scale was developed to test the hypotheses that stoicism would be more prevalent in British men (n = 30) than in British women (n = 32) and that stoicism would be related to negative attitudes toward the poor. It was also hypothesized that stoics would exhibit a weaker emotional reaction to stories that had emotive content. All three hypotheses were supported. There was evidence that the Stoicism Scale had internal consistency and some external validity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Liverpool, England.
authors.forename: G F
authors.initials: GF
authors.lastname: Wagstaff
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Rowledge
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D004644:Emotions; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010684:Philosophy; D011203:Poverty / Q000523:psychology*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results