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Right-wing authoritarianism, fundamentalism and prejudice revisited : Removing suppression and statistical artefact

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04/2009
Author
Mavor, Ken
Macleod, Cari J.
Boal, Miranda J.
Louis, Winnifred R.
Keywords
Right-wing authoritarianism
Prejudice
Statistical artefact
Fundamentalism
Attitudes
Social-dominance orientation
Religiosity
Religious fundamentalism
HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
BL Religion
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This paper challenges a finding reported by several researchers, that fundamentalism could be associated with a reduction in racial prejudice after controlling for authoritarianism (RWA). We argue that the presence of fundamentalism in the construct definition of the conventionalism cluster of RWA leads to higher associations between fundamentalism and conventionalism than with other aspects of RWA. This creates a statistical artefact that distorts the results of multiple regression analyses that include both fundamentalism and RWA as independent variables. To test this hypothesis, 299 participants completed measures of prejudice as well as fundamentalism and the three RWA clusters (conventionalism, authoritarian aggression, and submission). In regression analyses using fundamentalism and the combined RWA scale we replicate previous findings that when RWA is controlled, higher fundamentalism leads to lower prejudice. After removing the overlapping method variance in the scales, this pattern is eliminated and the commonly observed positive relationship between fundamentalism and prejudice is found. We describe the statistical artefact, its antecedents, and its theoretical implications, and outline how investigations in this important area should proceed. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Mavor , K , Macleod , C J , Boal , M J & Louis , W R 2009 , ' Right-wing authoritarianism, fundamentalism and prejudice revisited : Removing suppression and statistical artefact ' , Personality and Individual Differences , vol. 46 , no. 5-6 , pp. 592-597 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2008.12.016
Publication
Personality and Individual Differences
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2008.12.016
ISSN
0191-8869
Type
Journal article
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This is the author's accepted version of this work. The published version copyright © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. is available from http://www.sciencedirect.com
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3990

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