CORRELATES OF AMBIVALENCE, RISK-TAKING AND RIGIDITY.

Abstract

An examination was made of the relationships of over 40 variables in 3 samples of subjects. The variables belonged to 5 classes: (1) Personality traits (ambivalence toward parents, siblings and authority figures, hostility toward the same figures, manifest anxiety, vacillation tendencies in risk taking and perception); (2) Social ization experiences (amount of parental reward and punishment experienced during childhood, frequency of psychological discipline and corporal punishment administered by each of the parents, strictness of religious upbringing); (3) Perceptual styles (field dependence, perceptual rigidity, intolerance of ambiguity); (4) Social attitudes and cognitive styles (authoritarianism, dogmatism); (5) Risk-taking behavior (playful risk, financial risk, physical risk, risk of prestige).

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1964
Accession Number
AD0604585

Entities

People

  • A. Minkowich

Organizations

  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ambiguity
  • Behavior And Behavior Mechanisms
  • Frequency
  • Hostility
  • Human Behavior
  • Perception
  • Personality
  • Rigidity

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

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