"Two groups of women college students were placed in a judgmental conformity situation . . . to test the hypothesis that persons with high social-approval and low self-approval motivation would yield to a unanimous, but erring, majority in judgment of length of lines more frequently than would persons with the opposite motivational profile . . . . The results were in accord with the major hypothesis." 17 references.
Conforming behavior of 41 college freshman women, as measured in an Asch situation, was compared with the scales of the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule, the Gough California Psychological Inventory, and the Gordon Personal Profile. In the sample studied, only the Edwards' Abasement scale was able to generate a small but significant relationship (+ .33) with a kind of behavior which should have been predictable from some 12 to perhaps 27 of the 38 measures used. Excepting the 5 scales of Cough's 18, on the basis of questionable comparability of samples, a total of 33 measures was correlated with conforming behavior. Only 1 was found to have construct validity for this type of social conformity criterion when tested on a sample of college women.
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