%0 Journal Article %T Un estudio experimental sobre el Machismo %A Nuria Cortada de Kohan %A Alicia L.de Bertoni %A Edith Adamovsky %J Revista Latinoamericana de Psicolog¨ªa %D 1970 %I Fundaci¨®n Universitaria Konrad Lorenz %X Using Thurstome¡äs equal-intervals technique a scale was constructed to measure "machismo" The origins of Latin American "machismo" was analized in a social and historical context, and related to cultural traditions of Southerns Europe. Scale M, an adaptation of Adorno¡äs scale F (to measure authoritarianism), Holtzman¡äs Test Form A, and a socio-economic questionnaire were applied to two groups of Ss; 20 University students and 13 workers from the "Villas Miseria" of Buenos Aires. Significant results were found, at the. 001 level for both scales M and F; students were significantly less "machistas" and authoritarians than workers. Students had higher scores in the variables FA, M, I, end P of Holtzman¡äs Test, and lower in At, Sx, Ax, and Ho. %U http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=80502104