In a brief follow-up study the attitudes expressed by three empirically defined groups, conformers, independents, and anticonformers, related very closely to those found with a previous male college sample (Smith, 1967). The earlier significant correlation between a scale of attitudes and one of response style also held. A scale to measure psychological anomie reflected significant group differences in this study as was expected from previous theory and research.
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