562 subjects completed a test battery containing scales of Dogmatism, Inflexibility, Conservatism, and Intolerance of Ambiguity from which internal consistency coefficients were calculated. Adaption-Innovation theory suggests that (a) adaptors would be more concerned with consistency than innovators, (b) adaptors would be likely to choose and adhere to one of two specific strategies to help achieve high consistency, and (c) innovators would be more likely to switch between alternative strategies. Internal reliability coefficients of the responses of adaptors and innovators test by test and by whole battery are in accord with these predictions.
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