Authors report limited success in relating scores on tailor-made, pair-comparisons, adjectival measures of self-concept to scores on primary social-attitude variables: Religionism (r = .10), Humanitarianism (r = .17, p < .05), and Nationalism (r = .17, p < .05).
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