Civil Liberties Attitudes and Personality Measures: Some Exploratory Research

Questionnaires containing civil liberties and personality measures were administered in two different years to samples of adults in the metropolitan New York City area. Attitudes towards civil liberties issues consistently correlated positively with flexibility, self‐reliance and independence measures, even when age, education, and socioeconomic status were simultaneously held constant. Anomie and fate control measures had low negative relationships to some but not all civil liberties attitude measures. Anxiety scores did not relate to attitudes.