Investigating Right Wing Authoritarianism With a Very Short Authoritarianism Scale
Investigating Right Wing Authoritarianism With a Very Short Authoritarianism Scale
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DOI：
10.5964/jspp.v6i1.835
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发表时间：
2018-01-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Duckitt, John
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作者：
Bizumic, Boris;Duckitt, John
60 多年来，威权主义一直是一个重要的解释性概念，也是社会、政治和群体间态度和行为的有力预测者。威权主义研究的一个重要障碍是可用措施的长度，特别是当代强调社会研究需要使用更大、更具代表性的样本并衡量跨多个领域的多种结构。因此，我们开发了一个包含六个项目的极短威权主义（VSA）量表，它同样代表了阿尔特迈耶广泛使用的右翼威权主义（RWA）量表的三个内容子维度和两个措辞方向。来自三个国家的四个样本 (N = 1,601) 的 VSA 量表显示出令人满意的内部一致性和预期的分层因子结构，其中三个主要因子加载在单个高阶因子上。此外，该量表预测了民族主义、种族中心主义、政治倾向、政党/候选人支持、对内群体或外群体的态度以及中等到强水平的反少数偏见等变量，其效果非常接近于更长期建立的 RWA 衡量标准（包括阿尔特迈耶量表）所获得的效果。 VSA 量表还明显显示出比用于衡量独裁主义的独裁父母价值观的简短衡量标准更好的可靠性和有效性。
Authoritarianism has been an important explanatory concept for more than 60 years and a powerful predictor of social, political, and intergroup attitudes and behaviour. An important impediment to research on authoritarianism has been the length of the measures available, particularly with the contemporary emphasis on the need for social research to use larger, more representative samples and measure multiple constructs across multiple domains. We therefore developed a six-item Very Short Authoritarianism (VSA) scale that equally represented the three content subdimensions and two directions of wording of Altemeyer's widely used Right Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) scale. Over four samples (N = 1,601) from three countries the VSA scale showed satisfactory internal consistency and the expected hierarchical factor structure with three primary factors loading on a single higher-order factor. Additionally, the scale predicted variables such as nationalism, ethnocentrism, political orientation, political party/candidate support, attitudes towards ingroups or outgroups and anti-minority bias at moderate to strong levels with effects very close to those obtained for much longer established measures of RWA (including Altemeyer's scale). The VSA scale also showed clearly better reliability and validity than a short measure of authoritarian parental values that has been used to measure authoritarianism.