Mooney's Closure Test and the Pensacola Z Scale were given to 50 university students in order to test the relationship between authoritarianism, as measured by the Pensacola Scale, and closure ability, as measured by Mooney's Closure Test. There was a significant relationship between authoritarianism and closure ability, although only two of the four subscales of the Pensacola Scale produced significant relationships with closure when analyzed separately.
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