SOCIO-POLITICAL ATTITUDES OF STUDENTS: TESTING AND ADAPTATIONOF THE METHODOLOGY BY H. EYSENCK

Authors

  • A. V. Politaeva Belarusian M. Tank State Pedagogical University, Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus, 14 Mogilevskaya Str., 220007 Minsk, of the Republic of Belarus Author

Keywords:

social and political positions; hierarchical dispositions; permissiveness; racism; religion; socialism; liberalism and reactionary; pacifism; ‘‘radicalism—conservatism’’; ‘‘rigidity—softness’’

Abstract

In the article the theoretical approach to the study of the social and political positions based on the theory of G. Eysenck’s personality traits is described. The author shows the results of the study on the social and political attitudes
carried out by the students of BSPU. The influence of gender factor on super factor ‘‘radicalism—conservatism’’ and
‘‘rigidity—softness’’ has been found out, which agrees with the author’s research methods. The details covering the
method of determining the socio-political positions, the scale meanings are analyzed. The basic stages of psychometric
testing techniques, such as the consistency of scale, validity, reliability are put forward.

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Published

2016-03-01

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Section

ПСИХОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ НАУКИ