Chappel and Veach (1987) completed a five-year study of 212 medical students who participated in substance abuse education and used the SAAS to measure five attitudes (
permissiveness, non-stereotyping, treatment intervention, treatment optimism, and nonmoralism) in the students.
Participants completed five surveys assessing, respectively, (a) sexual behaviour, (b) perceptions of "average" levels of sexual activity, (c) sexual
permissiveness, (d) perceptions of "average" levels of sexual
permissiveness, and (e) sexual satisfaction.
Pearson r correlations revealed a negative correlation between religiosity and the sexual attitudes of
permissiveness, r(327) = -.32, p < .001, [r.sup.2] = .10, sexual practices r(326) = -.20, p < .001, [r.sup.2] = .04, and instrumentality r(327) = -.19, p < .001, [r.sup.2] = .04.
Neoconservative journalist Midge Decter said that the younger generation had no "capacity for deferred gratification."
Permissiveness led to hedonism, which led to trouble.
Attention, harried parents: Supportive control gets the nod over
permissiveness if you want to nurture a psychologically healthy teenager, according to an ongoing study directed by psychologist Diana Baumrind of the University of California, Berkeley.
As pop music and fashion were becoming more explicitly sexual, the Top Rank dance halls in places like Cardiff and Swansea provided opportunities for encounters inspired by a new sense of
permissiveness.
"The relationship to drugs wasn't the same, the relationship to sexual liberty and
permissiveness neither.
the sexual orientation regulations are part of a general scene of
permissiveness."
We are told not to underestimate the poor religious practice and devotion of many adolescent students, nor "the often negative impact of the media on sexual morality," and the "sexual
permissiveness of the general culture." This can be counteracted by the expertise of the teacher, who is "called to understand the particular strengths and weaknesses of each unique student in order to assess his or her moral capabilities at any given time; what can and should be the next step in this person's journey toward chastity" (PG, p.
The story presumes to draw its dramatic tension from the contradiction of a rangy latter-day Wyatt Earp making his way in Gotham, presented in the film as a redoubt of seedy hotels, pill-popping scenesters, and criminals emboldened by the torpor of liberal
permissiveness. And of course, what more striking way could there be to mark Coogan's passage from the desert West to the big, modern metropolis than to whisk him in from JFK via twin-rotor helicopter and set him down right in the heart of midtown, on the roof of the Pan Am Building?
When it comes to moral traditionalism, waves of
permissiveness (or liberation, depending on your perspective) regarding marriage, sex, drugs, and popular culture have made 1950s-style traditionalists relics of an era that might as well be 500 years ago rather than 50.
The portrayal of the 1950s as a decade of increased sexual candidness, but not of increased
permissiveness, appears mistaken; but it is wrong for more than the obvious reason.