Comparative social attitudes

Tests of the following attitudes were given to high-school seniors, to their parents, to their teachers, and to a group of 83 university professors: attitudes toward industry, the state, the church, personal morality, the family, and the school. The general trend of the results for each attitude may be indicated by the correlations obtained when all attitude tests were pooled: r (students-parents) = .92; r (students-teachers) = .85; r (students-professors) = .66; r (parents-teachers) = 88; r (parents-professors) = .65; r (teachers-professors) = .88. The dependence of the pupils' attitudes on the attitudes of parents, teachers, and professors, as determined by the partial correlation technique, were .61, .12, and .01, respectively.