The purposes of this study were to examine the attitudes toward women of various groups of college students and to study their attitudes in relationship to levels of exhibited authoritarianism. A greater percentage of authoritarian subjects perceived women in a negative way. (Author)

During 1987-87 through 1988-89, longitudinal follow-up studies were conducted of the graduates of the teacher education programs at Tennessee Technological University. The sample consisted of 60 first-year teachers who had completed their bachelor's degrees. During 1986-87 the Classroom Observation Keyed for Effectiveness Research was utilized as…

The Open Subordination of Women Scale (OSW) is a 20-item Likert scale with four subscores for: restrictive policies, alleged inferiority, alleged narrowness, and alleged offensiveness. Students at Tennessee Technological University, 220 male and 198 female, volunteered to respond to this scale and to the California F-Scale of authoritarianism. The…

A study tested the hypothesis that elementary school teachers who were less authoritarian in their beliefs were more effective in the classroom. The independent variable was the California F-scale score of the 142 subjects (all education graduates of Tennessee Technological University), while dependent variables were measures of classroom…