Authoritarians show elevated hostility toward women and acceptance of rape myths

Evidence

By contrast, Walker, Rowe, and Quinsey (1993) found an r of . between the RWA Scale and sexual assaults admitted on the Sexual Experiences Survey (Koss and Dinero, 1987) among 157 university students. The correlation came in at . among 41 nonstudents recruited through posters and employment centers (Walker and Quinsey, 1991). Also, significant RWA correlations appeared in the whole sample with Malamuth’s (1981) Likelihood of Forcing Sex (.18); Check et al.’s (1985) Hostility toward Women Scale (.36); and Burt’s (1980) Acceptance of Interpersonal Violence Scale (.51), Adversarial Sexual Beliefs Scale (.48), and Rape Myth Acceptance Scale (.54). — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 386