Students in an undergraduate personality course at the University of Hawaii administered the D and F Scales to the most and least dogmatic persons to which they had access. The groups were found to differ significantly on the D Scale but not the F Scale and to differ significantly more on the D Scale than on the F Scale. These data were interpreted as supporting Rokeach's contention that the D Scale is a measure of general authoritarianism irrespective of particular political ideology.
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