Stoicism: Its Relation to Gender, Attitudes Toward Poverty, and Reactions to Emotive Material
- 1 April 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in The Journal of Social Psychology
- Vol. 135 (2), 181-184
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.1995.9711421
Abstract
A scale was developed to test the hypotheses that stoicism would be more prevalent in British men (n = 30) than in British women (n = 32) and that stoicism would be related to negative attitudes toward the poor. It was also hypothesized that stoics would exhibit a weaker emotional reaction to stories that had emotive content. All three hypotheses were supported. There was evidence that the Stoicism Scale had internal consistency and some external validity.Keywords
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