FASCISM AND ATTITUDES TOWARD MANDATORY STERILIZATION: THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ATTITUDE SCALE.

In the first part of a two-part study, 150 undergraduate and graduate college students of both sexes participated in the development of a Likert type attitude scale measuring attitudes toward mandatory sterilization. In the second part of the investigation, 58 male and 48 female undergraduate college students with a mean age of 24.2 years, participated in a study assessing the reliability of the scale, and the relationship between attitudes toward sterilization and fascism. The final scale consists of 36 items selected by the criterion of internal consistency. The scale has high internal reliability and relates moderately to fascist attitudes. It is suggested that positive attitudes toward mandatory sterilization and fascism have common ideological roots in the predominant emphasis on the nature rather than the nurture of human behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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