An Attitude Scale on Accepting Negro Students

A Thurstone-type scale of 20 items was constructed for the purpose of measuring attitudes among the all-white students of a Southern college for women on the hypothetical question of accepting a Negro student. The scale items appear, on the whole, to meet the statistical specifications in regard to consistency of response and “equal intervals” as usually defined for tests of this sort. When the scale was administered to 280 students out of a student body of 504, Southern students were found to be significantly more opposed than border and Northern students. Freshmen were more opposed than older students, but at only the .10 level of confidence

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