Abstract

The purposes of the present study were the construction of the Korean version of the authoritarian personality scale, the exploration of socio-cognitivs characteristics of authoritarian persons, and the comparison between responses to the different types of minority groups in Korean society. The results of the study with college student samples were: First, items representing the nine aspects of authoritarian personality were sampled and analyzed resulting in the construction of the 35-item Korean version of the authoritarian personality scale with high reliability and validity. Second, authoritarian persons, compared to non-autheritarian persons, were food to have tendency to use stereotypical group schema in interpersonal settings. Third, interesting differences in feelings, cognitions, and behavioral intentions were found to exist between responses to Honam people, women, and low socio-economic status people, the three minority groups in Korea. Especially the bases of discrimination were found to differ for different minority groups; negative stereotypes regarding social characters for Honam persons, negative stereotypes regarding abilities for low SES persons, and socio-cultural stereotypes regarding sex-roles for women.