Effects of Situational Authority and Subject's Level of Dogmatism on Attitudes Toward Conventional and Unconventional Music.

Social learning theorists have recently given increasing attention to the role of situational as well as personal variables in predicting behavior (e.g., Mischel, 1968, 1973; Mischel, Ebbeson and Zeiss, 1973 ; Milgram, 1963, 1964, 1974). This recent research represents a trend away from traditional personality theories which emphasize traits as broad determinants of behavior across different situations. Rokeach's (1960) theory of dogmatism, a personality theory akin to the older trait theories which rests on the conceptualization of personality as an organization of beliefs or expectancies along a central-peripheral dimension, having a definable and measurable structure, has been used to predict behavior across situations. In Rokeach's (1960) conceptualization, intermediate between the central beliefs (primitive beliefs as to the friendliness or hostility of the world) and the peripheral beliefs (individual and specific beliefs emanating from the individual's authority source) are "the beliefs a person has in and about the nature of authority and the people who line up with authority, on whom he depends to help him form a picture of the world he lives in" (Rokeach, I960, p.40). Serving as both source of information and means of validating the information received, authority figures occupy a central position in an individual's relationship to the world around him.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Year

1981

Author dc:creator

• Tauxe, Margaret

• Conceptualization
• Friendliness
• Dogmatism
• Social learning theorists
• Personal variables

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.library.uab.edu/etd-collection/7087

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.library.uab.edu:etd-collection-8079