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Tendency to conform: a new measure and its relationship to psychological reactance
Ronald E Goldsmith1, Ronald A Clark, Barbara A Lafferty
1Marketing Department, College of Business, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-1110, USA. rgoldsm@garnet.acns.fsu.edu
Abstract:
This study assessed the relationship between two important constructs in social psychology, conformity and psychological reactance, which are suggested to be negatively related, i.e., a person higher in the tendency to conform will score lower on psychological reactance and vice versa. The two constructs were measured by multi-item self-report scales, the Therapeutic Reactance Scale of Dowd, et al. and a new tendency to conform scale constructed for this study. Data from a survey of 423 undergraduate students were used to test the hypothesis that scores on the scales were negatively correlated. The hypothesized relationship was positively supported by a significant but only moderately sized correlation (r =-.32, p <.001).
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