Overtly punitive family socialization was theorized to produce authoritarian personality

Evidence

According to Adorno and his colleagues, the authoritarian personality syndrome was theorized to include general ethnocentrism, ego-defensiveness (the inability to admit one’s own fears or weaknesses combined with a lack of self-insight), mental rigidity and intolerance of ambiguity, projection and the idealization of authority figures, conformity and conventionalism, the expression of hostility and aggression towards deviants, and political-economic conservatism. The personality syndrome was assumed to result from oppressive, overly punitive and restrictive socialization practices within the family, arising from economic and other frustrations. The syndrome was measured with a survey instrument, called the F-Scale (or Fascism Scale), which was one of the most widely used scales in all of political psychology during the 1950s and 1960s. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 398

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Fascism’s psychology emerges first in childhood peer cruelty — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 215; Authoritarian children result not only from patriarchal modeling but from the family’s failed protection. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 751; Horkheimer redirected the study from the family toward authority within the family — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 602 (+3 more)