Un estudio experimental sobre el Machismo

Using Thurstome′s 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′s scale F (to measure authoritarianism), Holtzman′s 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′s Test, and lower in At, Sx, Ax, and Ho.