Student self-labeled socialists show authoritarian tendencies that adult socialists lack

Evidence

You might accordingly infer that if capitalists looked really bad on these measures, socialists must have looked really good. This proved true among the parents, whose socialists scored lowest in RWA, fifth in DOG, fifth in Zealot, and lowest in Ethnocentrism, ATH, and Posse. But among the students, socialists ranked third in RWA, DOG, and Zealot scores, second in Ethnocentrism, fourth in ATH, and third in Posse-Radicals (sic!). — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2785 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Parents of Manitoba students showed a correlation of .45-. between their RWA scores and ethnocentrism on the earlier version. On the present test, which has the same internal cohesion and alpha among parents that it has among their first derivatives, the correlation roams around .50. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 340 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Responses to the fifteen items showed little Les Miz sentiment, averaging 4.02 on the 1-9 scale. But they also showed almost no internal consistency, their mean intercorrelation being only .07. The items I had tried did not uncover much of a “‘system of ideas.” — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2883 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: West German students showed more authoritarian than democratic latent political potential — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2349; Self-identified socialist students show surprisingly high authoritarianism unlike socialist parents — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2785; Adults show a stronger authoritarianism-ethnocentrism correlation than students — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 340 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Self-identified socialist students show surprisingly high authoritarianism unlike socialist parents #corroborates (0.97) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2785
• Adults show a stronger authoritarianism-ethnocentrism correlation than students #complicates (0.78) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 340
• No coherent left-wing authoritarian ideology emerged from measured student responses #complicates (0.74) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2883