Crowson H Michael, Thoma Stephen J, Hestevold Nita
Department of Educational Psychology, University of Oklahoma, 820 Van Vleet Oval, Rm. 321, Norman, OK 73019-2041, USA.
J Soc Psychol. 2005 Oct;145(5):571-92. doi: 10.3200/SOCP.145.5.571-592.
The authors performed 2 studies that tested the distinction between conservative political ideology and right-wing authoritarianism (RWA). Across these studies, moderate relationships emerged between RWA and our measures of cognitive rigidity, whereas the relationship between rigidity and mainstream conservative ideology was not as strong. The authors used partial-correlation and path analyses to assess the possibility that RWA mediates the relationship between (a) cognitive rigidity and (b) mainstream conservative attitudes and self-identified conservatism. The results indicated that conservatism is not synonymous with RWA. Additionally, RWA appeared to partially mediate the relationship between cognitive rigidity and mainstream conservatism.
作者进行了两项研究，以检验保守政治意识形态与右翼威权主义（RWA）之间的区别。在这些研究中，RWA与我们的认知僵化测量指标之间呈现出中等程度的关系，而僵化与主流保守意识形态之间的关系则没那么强烈。作者使用偏相关分析和路径分析来评估RWA是否在以下两者关系中起中介作用：（a）认知僵化与（b）主流保守态度及自我认定的保守主义。结果表明，保守主义与RWA并非同义词。此外，RWA似乎部分介导了认知僵化与主流保守主义之间的关系。
