Personality Characteristics Associated with Activism and Disaffiliation in Today's College Age Youth.

Whittaker, David; Watts, William A.

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Personality Characteristics Associated with Activism and Disaffiliation in Today's College Age Youth

Whittaker, David; Watts, William A.

Journal of Counseling Psychology, 18, 3, 200-206, May 71

This article contrasts with a sample of college students the youthful members of two expressively alienated forms of nonconformity: student activists committed to confrontation tactics to force social change and disaffiliated college dropouts withdrawn from incompatible social conditions. (Author)

Descriptors: Activism, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Personality, Student Alienation, Student Attitudes, Student Characteristics, Student Subcultures

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