Personality and Support/Repression of Marginal Social Groups

Abstract

The authors tested the hypothesis that the high scorers on EPQ extroversion scale express more tollerant and humanitarian attitudes towards the marginal social groups whereas the high scorers on psychoticism take more repressive position. The data collected from 249 Polish subjects by means of Eysenck and Eysenck á1975ñ EPQ questionnaire and the scale measuring attitudes towards different marginal social groups confirmed the assumption. The results are discussed in reference to the role of personality of people responsible for social policy in terms of support or repression aimed at various marginal groups.