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Factors Affecting Obedience - Coggle Diagram
Factors Affecting Obedience
Personality Factors
Authoritarian Personality
Harsh parenting leads to submissiveness to authority and high levels of obedience. (Adorno et Al 1950)
Internal and External Locus of Control
Miller (1975) showed that externals were more likely to obey dangerous orders than internals.
Evaluation
Elms and Milgram (1966) found fully obedient participants score higher on the f-scale than defiant participants. This however does nto show a casual link between authoritarianism and obedience
Internal locus of control does not predict defiance. In Austria they found no difference between obedient and defiant participants (Schurz 1985)
There is application to the world of work, personality tests can be used to help match people to jobs requiring different obedience levels
Situation Factors
Legitimacy
Reducing authority figures perceived legitimacy reduces obedience.
Proximity
Increased distance between authority figure and participant decreases obedience.
Behaviour of Others
Witnessing disobedience in others increases defiance
Evaluation
Meeus and Raajmakers (1995) found obedience drops when experimenter absent (36%) and two peers rebel (16%). However this works with personality.
Application to rule breaking, changing wording of country side rules increases the strength of the message (Gramann et al 1995)
Gender
Culture
Individualism and Collectivism