Correlates of Attitudes toward Women in Zimbabwe

This study investigated the reliability, factorial validity, and interrelationship of measures of attitudes toward women, dogmatism, conservatism, and authoritarianism in Zimbabwe. Participants were 110 female and 110 male college students. Although the measure of dogmatism was moderately reliable, measures of attitudes toward women, conservatism, and authoritarianism were very unreliable. Factor analysis failed to support the construct validity of any of the measures administered. Intercorrelations between measures of attitudes toward women, dogmatism, conservatism, and authoritarianism were uniformly nonsignificant. The results call into question the cross-cultural utility of these particular measures and perhaps of other measures relating to attitudes or ideology.