A note on "ethnocentrism" and acquiescent response sets.

Abstract

93 high school students were given the 9-item E scale, the reversed F scale, and the Gough intolerance scale. Even though the Gough intolerance scale correlated positively with the E scale it also correlated positively with agreement to reversed F scale items. The results emphasize the "necessity of controlling item form in studying certain attitude contents, such as ''ethnocentrism'' or ''authoritarianism.''.