Summary

Three instruments—namely, the Gould Manifest Alienation Measure, Rotter's Internal-External scale, and Dean's Alienation Measure—were administered to 41 male and 69 female students because they reflected different traditions and conceptualizations of the alienation syndrome. It was found that the three instruments intercorrelated significantly for both sexes and therefore seemed to measure much in common. However, the three subscales on the Dean Alienation measure appeared to tap different aspects of the alienation concept for males, but not for females.