Authoritarianism, Rebelliousness, and Their Correlates among British Undergraduates

The development and validation of an anglicized version of Kohn's (1972) Authoritarianism–Rebellion Scale is described. It proved adequately reliable and related predictably to the following: Conservatism; Ethnocentrism; Intolerance of Ambiguity; Dogmatism; membership in each of four political groups; and demographic information on political preference, religious preference and religious attendance. Principal components analysis yielded five rotated factors interpreted as sociopolitical rebelliousness, general right‐wing authoritarianism, authoritarian submission, a prepolitical authoritarian‐rebellious dimension and ethnocentrism. Several pertinent analyses failed to support the hypothesis of an ‘authoritarianism of the left’.