AN ANALYSIS OF HOSTILITY AND ANXIETY IN SELECTED SPEECHES OF VERNON EULION JORDAN, JR

The study examined anxiety and hostility scores as determined by The Gottschalk-Gleser Scales in selected economic and non-economic speeches of Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., delivered during his tenure as President of The National Urban League between 1972 and 1979. The study had three major foci. First, did Jordan exhibit greater anxiety and/or hostility in his economic speeches than his non-economic speeches? Second, how did Jordan's anxiety and hostility scores compare with the scores of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X? Lastly, how did Jordan's scores compare to the scores of the Gottschalk-Gleser population?;The non-economic hostility directed outward mean was slightly higher than the economic hostility directed outward mean. The Jordan economic hostility directed outward scores related to the Black unemployment rates. Jordan's combined economic and non-economic anxiety and hostility mean was lower than the mean for Malcolm X, almost identical to the mean for Martin Luther King, Jr., and higher than the mean for the Gottschalk-Gleser populations.;There was little difference between the Jordan economic and non-economic ambivalent hostility scores. The non-economic speeches had more consistent manifestations of scorable ambivalent hostility than the economic speeches. Jordan's combined economic and non-economic ambivalent hostility mean was lower than Malcom X's and the Gottschalk-Gleser populations, but was higher than King's.;There was little difference between the economic and non-economic hostility directed inward means. Jordan's combined economic and non-economic hostility directed inward mean was lower than the means for King, Malcolm X, and The Gottschalk-Gleser populations.;There was little difference between the anxiety means of economic and non-economic speeches. The economic anxiety scores did show a relationship to Black unemployment rates. Jordan's combined economic and non-economic anxiety mean was lower than the means of Malcolm X, King, and The Gottschalk-Gleser populations.;The study revealed consistently low anxiety and low hostility scores for Jordan.