The article informs about authoritarian attitudes of Czech adolescents, in a group of 1,253 students of randomly chosen grammar schools, secondary schools and vocational schools in Prague and České Budějovice (average age of the group was 16.4 years). The level of authoritarianism is measured by Adorno’s F-scale. The average F score of the whole group was 4.73; 63.1 per cent of all respondents had an F score higher than 4.5, which strongly suggests that Czech society is on average relatively highly conservative, conventional and not very open towards the external world and towards social changes. Significantly lowest authoritarian tendencies were recorded in students of secondary grammar schools, while 75.5 per cent of students of vocational schools identified themselves with quite extremely authoritarian and conservative attitudes Prague students in comparison with the students from České Budějovice were showing on average lower authoritarian and conservative tendencies, a lower level of xenophobia and lower identification with attitudes of power in solving of social problems. No statistically significant relation between authoritarian tendencies and the followed characteristics of the families of respondents were found, with the exception of the education of parents. A positive correlation between the level of F-score, level of anxiety and reservation towards oneself was found.

        Key words: authoritarianism, conservatism, ethnocentrism, self-esteem, anxiety, F-scale.