Extreme Response Sets as a Measure of Intolerance of Ambiguity

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ID9619614
AuthorsM I SOUEIF (Maudsley Hospital, corresponding author)
Year1958
Volume49
Issue4
Pages329-334
Publication date1958-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBritish Journal of Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-1269 • E-ISSN: 2044-8295
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.2044-8295.1958.tb00672.x
PMID13596576
OpenAlexW2063173720
LanguageEN
Citations received6

A Personal Friends Questionnaire was administered to various groups of Egyptian subjects totalling 1028 in all. This questionnaire is composed of seventy items, each of which is to be checked either + 2, + 1, 0, −1 or −2. Extreme response scores were obtained by counting the number of times +2 or −2 were assigned by each subject. Corrected split‐half reliabilities of the extreme response scores for males and females were 0.92 in both cases. The extreme response set scores are suggested as possible measures of intolerance of ambiguity. A general hypothesis was formulated according to which a social group with a higher tension level would earn a higher extreme response score than a social group with a lower tension level. The theoretical formulation of the problem in this way allowed for four predictions, about the effect on extreme response set scores of age, sex, membership of a religious minority and socio‐economic status. For verification of the predictions, the social groups were matched for age, sex and religion. The four expectations were, on the whole, fulfilled

Ambiguity · Developmental psychology · Set (abstract data type) · Social desirability · Emotional Intelligence and Performance · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology

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