TITLE:
Personality, Emotional and Self-Assessed Intelligence and Right Wing Authoritarianism
AUTHORS:
Adrian Furnham
KEYWORDS:
Right-Wing Authoritarianism, Personality, Intelligence
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.6 No.16,
December
29,
2015
ABSTRACT: Two studies examined correlates of right-wing authoritarianism (RWA). In the first study (N = 260), lower self-assessments of intelligence were associated with higher RWA scores. In the second study (N = 328), personality traits and emotional intelligence but not self-assessed intelligence were related to RWA beliefs. Higher RWA scorers tended to be Closed-to-Experience, Conscientious, and Neurotics with higher trait emotional intelligence. Together these accounted for 20% of the variance.