Scores on authoritarianism were uncorrelated with scores on conscientiousness and openness and positively related to age 62 scores on neuroticism. These findings are somewhat inconsistent with past feelings on authoritarianism. The lack of a relationship between authoritarianism and conscientiousness, however, is not too surprising given the usually weak magnitude correlates that exist between the two variables(e.g., Heaven & Bucci, 2001). But the results for neuroticism and openness were a surprise.
If we take these results as valid, we might explain the openness to experience and neuroticism findings as having to do with the age of the sample.
我々がこれらの結果を妥当として受け入れるなら、経験に対する開放性と神経症的傾向の調査結果は、このサンプルの年齢に関係しているという説明ができるかもしれません。