• DOI:10.2466/pr0.1973.33.3.955
• Corpus ID: 46608128

Relation between Dogmatism and Anxiety

@article{Gaensslen1973RelationBD,
  title={Relation between Dogmatism and Anxiety},
  author={Hans Gaensslen and Friday May and F W{\"o}lpert},
  journal={Psychological Reports},
  year={1973},
  volume={33},
  pages={955 - 958}
}

• H. Gaensslen, F. May, F. Wölpert
• Published 1 December 1973
• Psychology
• Psychological Reports

The Dogmatism scale consists of items whose semantic content is anxiety and of items whose content is purely dogmatic. The first group of items correlates highly with all seven anxiety dimensions from Cattell's 16 PF Test, the second group moderately with only 2 of the 7 anxiety dimensions. Therefore, the significant correlation of the usually computed total Dogmatism score with 4 anxiety dimensions cannot be regarded as a valid proof of Rokeach's hypothesis of a general relation between anxiety and dogmatism. Conclusions like these are questionable because of the heterogeneous structure of the Dogmatism scale, for which evidence accumulates and which contradicts the traditional use of the Dogmatism scale as a summated rating scale.