Title CLOTHING BEHAVIOR RELATED TO ATTITUDES TOWARD CERTAIN CLOTHING STANDARDS, CLOTHING INTEREST, ORTHODOXY, AND CONFORMITY

(Major professor) The purposes of the study were to explore the possibility of relationships existing among clothing behavior, attitudes toward certain clothing standards, interest in clothes, religious orthodoxy, and conformity among a group of Seventh-day Adventist college girls; and to determine whether or not factors of socio- economic level, type of secondary education (parochial, non-parochial), and church membership background affected these relationships. To measure these relationships a questionnaire containing five scales was developed. Two scales, attitude and behavior, were de-vised by the writer; three were adapted from existing measures. The attitude and behavior scales were based on statements from the clothing literature of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination and re-flected a conservative interpretation of their clothing standards. The five scales were scored on the basis of agreement o