THE PREJUDICED PERSONALITY, RACISM, AND ANTI-SEMITISM - THE PR SCALE 40 YEARS LATER

The relationship of prejudiced personality traits with racism and anti -Semitism was examined with 150 Asian American and White university st udents. The Prejudice (PR) scale, composed of 32 items from the Minnes ota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, was administered along with the McConahay racism scale and the Selznick and Steinberg Anti-Semitism s cale. Results indicated that for Whites, the PR scale was significantl y correlated with old-fashioned and modern racism and anti-Semitism, r eplicating Gough's 1951 study (Gough, 1951b) with the PR scale. Howeve r, no such relationship was observed for the Asian American group. Thi s suggests that personality traits of prejudicial attitudes may be rel atively stable for Whites but may not be related to outgroup bias for other racial or ethnic groups.