SOME PERSONALITY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN DOGMATIC AND NONDOGMATIC GROUPS.

The article presents a discussion on some personality differences between dogmatic and nondogmatic groups. The purpose of this article is to present the results of analyses directed toward determining how persons who differ markedly in measured dogmatism differ in certain other respects. The Rokeach Dogmatism Scale: Form E was the measure used to select extreme groups for this purpose. In the monograph "Political and Religious Dogmatism," the author published a 40-item measure of general authoritarianism or dogmatism. Since its publication, the Dogmatism Scale, hereinafter referred to as the D Scale, has been and continues to be used extensively in social-psychological research and particularly in research dealing with attempts to measure the nonintellectual effects of a college education. The most comprehensive summary of work with the scale to date is found in the book "The Open and Closed Mind." In the development of the D Scale, systematic effort demonstrated that this scale is less loaded with a left-right or liberal-conservative political dimension than is the familiar California F Scale.