Anti-intellectualism and political ideology in a sample of undergraduate and graduate students.
To estimate correlations for scores on a student anti-intellectualism scale with scores on a measure of political conservatism, 235 students were given a survey containing a student anti-intellectualism scale, a political conservatism scale, and a demographics questionnaire identifying the participants' sex, college classification, ethnicity, political party affiliation, and self-described political ideology. The political conservatism scale contained two factors, Religiosity and Economic Conservatism, both of which were scored separately in addition to an overall Conservatism score. Students' Anti-intellectualism scores were correlated with Political Conservatism scores (r = .37, p < .01), with Religiosity scores (r = .42, p < .01), and with Economic Conservatism scores (r = .17, p < .05). An analysis of variance indicated a significant difference in students' Anti-intellectualism scores based on college classification (F4,233 = 2.27, p < .04). Specifically, freshman had significantly higher scores than graduate students.
Laverghetta
Antonio
A
Department of Psychology and Human Ecology, Cameron University, Lawton, OK 73505-6377, USA. alaverghetta@cameron.edu
Stewart
Juliana
J
Weinstein
Lawrence
L
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006608:Hierarchy, Social; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009341:Negativism; D010684:Philosophy; D011057:Politics; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012925:Social Conformity; D012945:Social Values; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires