Youth and Authority: Adolescent Attitudes Toward Societal Power Structures

A survey of youth attitudes toward various aspects of societal authority, created by Gerda Lederer of Columbia University. The dataset likely contains scales and individual questions on general authoritarianism, respect for state and parental authority, xenophobia, authoritarian family structures, and attitudes toward school, communism, and National Socialism. Demographic variables include school name, class, age, gender, religion, and parental nationality.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between demographic factors and authoritarian attitudes based on the listed demographic variables.
• Analyzing correlations between attitudes toward different authority figures (e.g., state, parents, teachers) based on the described scales.
• Investigating the link between self-placement on a left-right continuum and specific political attitudes mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Covers a wide range of specific attitude topics, including general authoritarianism, xenophobia, and political ideologies.
• Includes demographic variables such as age, gender, religion, and parental nationality for subgroup analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Gerda Lederer, Columbia University

Collection Method

Survey data collection