Relationship of the Scores on the Tolerance Scale of the Jackson Personality Inventory to those on Rokeach's Dogmatism Scale

Abstract

The purpose of the present investigation was to ascertain the degree of relationship between the scores on the Tolerance Scale of the Jackson Personality Inventory and those on Rokeach's Dogmatism Scale. The sample was comprised of 39 undergraduate students, of whom 32 were females and 7 were males, from an Adolescent Psychology class at Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee. It was hypothesized that a significant but inverse relationship existed between tolerance and dogmatism. A correlation coefficient of -.575, which was significant beyond the .01 level, was found between the two measures.