Refining the Short Social Dominance Orientation scale (SSDO): A validation in seven European countries

People and societies differ in their tendency to justify inequalities and group hierarchies, a motivation that has been labelled social dominance orientation (SDO). In order to efficiently measure this motivational tendency, Pratto and colleagues (2013, https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550612473663) proposed the four-item Short Social Dominance Orientation (SSDO) scale. The present study comprehensively assesses the SSDO scale’s psychometric properties in seven European countries (Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, France, Hungary, Italy, and Poland). Using large and diverse samples from these countries, we propose a measurement model to assess the scale’s structural validity and we assess measurement invariance (MI), reliability, and convergent validity. Results suggest that the scale is sufficiently reliable, shows theoretically predictable and consistent correlations with external criteria across countries, it exhibits at least partial scalar and partial uniqueness MI across the seven countries and full MI across gender. These findings offer support for the psychometric quality of the SSDO scale and its usefulness for cross-national and multi-topic social surveys.

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Ambivalent Speciesism Scale: Development, Validity and Reliability

Nesne Psikoloji Dergisi ◽

10.7816/nesne-08-18-09 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (18) ◽

Keyword(s):

Animal Rights ◽

Social Dominance ◽

Animal Ethics ◽

High Reliability ◽

Social Dominance Orientation ◽

Three Dimensions ◽

Validity And Reliability ◽

The Social ◽

Orientation Scale ◽

Animal Use

The aim of this study is to develop a scale compatible with current animal ethics studies to measure the phenomenon of speciesism, that is marginalization of animals and prejudice and discrimination against animals. In order to develop the Ambivalent Speciesism Scale, an item pool was created by examining the animal ethics literature and social psychology studies on human-animal relations, and then the items were edited by taking the opinions of people studying animal rights and experts in measurement and evaluation in psychology. The scale is designed in 7-point Likert type. The trial form was applied to the participants together with the Speciesism Scale, the Social Dominance Orientation Scale and the Basic Empathy Scale. Participants were selected from individuals representing different lifestyles in the context of animal use, using the snowball sampling technique. The study was conducted with 288 participants; 64 men, 217 women and, 7 of whom are not of both genders. While there were 24 items in the trial form of the scale, nine of these items were eliminated as a result of the factor analysis. The final form of the scale with 15 items has a high reliability (.90). The items of the scale are divided into three dimensions: belief in human superiority, protective speciesism, and speciesism in language. It was determined that the scores obtained from the scale were in positive correlation with the scores obtained from the other scale measuring speciesism and the social dominance orientation scale, as expected. The scores obtained from the scale are distributed as expected among the groups that include lifestyles related to animal use. These data were evaluated as findings showing the validity of the scale. Keywords Speciesism, ambivalent speciesism scale, animal rights, discrimination, animal ethics

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Experiments in political psychology

10.31234/osf.io/c2a6b ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Kyle Fischer ◽

Quentin Atkinson ◽

Ananish Chaudhuri

Keyword(s):

Social Dominance ◽

Political Ideology ◽

Ultimatum Game ◽

Social Dominance Orientation ◽

Right Wing ◽

Right Wing Authoritarianism ◽

The Social ◽

Orientation Scale ◽

The Right ◽

Social Conservatism

This chapter provides an overview of studies that use incentivised experiments to study political ideology. We look first at studies that conceptualise political ideology along a unidimensional liberal-conservative spectrum and explore whether there are behavioural differences between liberals and conservatives. While recent studies find that liberals display more pro-sociality, many other studies find that liberals and conservatives display similar levels of pro-social, ingroup-biased, normative, and punitive behaviour. We then turn to experiments that study two-dimensional political ideology as embodied in the concepts of economic conservatism/progressivism (often measured with the Social Dominance Orientation scale) and social conservatism/progressivism (usually measured with the Right-Wing Authoritarianism scale). In such experiments, economic conservatives display lower levels of pro-sociality and universalism and greater tolerance of inequality and tendencies to harm outgroups. Social conservatives tend to display “groupishness”, including distrusting anonymous strangers, cooperating with ingroup members, following rules, punishing in the ultimatum game, and sometimes harming outgroups.

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Social Dominance Orientation Scale

PsycTESTS Dataset ◽

10.1037/t01146-000 ◽

1994 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Felicia Pratto ◽

Jim Sidanius ◽

Lisa M. Stallworth ◽

Bertram F. Malle

Keyword(s):

Social Dominance ◽

Social Dominance Orientation ◽

Orientation Scale

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Social Dominance Orientation Scale--Modified

PsycTESTS Dataset ◽

10.1037/t16272-000 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

Jessieka Mata ◽

Negin Ghavami ◽

Michele A. Wittig

Keyword(s):

Social Dominance ◽

Social Dominance Orientation ◽

Orientation Scale

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Short Social Dominance Orientation Scale

PsycTESTS Dataset ◽

10.1037/t31530-000 ◽

2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Felicia Pratto ◽

Atilla Çidam ◽

Andrew L. Stewart ◽

Fouad Bou Zeineddine ◽

María Aranda ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Social Dominance ◽

Social Dominance Orientation ◽

Orientation Scale

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On the Relation Between Social Dominance Orientation and Environmentalism

Social Psychological and Personality Science ◽

10.1177/1948550617722832 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 9 (7) ◽

pp. 802-814 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

Taciano L. Milfont ◽

Paul G. Bain ◽

Yoshihisa Kashima ◽

Victor Corral-Verdugo ◽

Carlota Pasquali ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Social Dominance ◽

Social Dominance Orientation ◽

Natural World ◽

Negative Association ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Environmental Standards ◽

Environmental Behaviors ◽

Environmental Organization ◽

Orientation Scale ◽

Societal Inequality

Approval of hierarchy and inequality in society indexed by social dominance orientation (SDO) extends to support for human dominance over the natural world. We tested this negative association between SDO and environmentalism and the validity of the new Short Social Dominance Orientation Scale in two cross-cultural samples of students ( N = 4,163, k = 25) and the general population ( N = 1,237, k = 10). As expected, the higher people were on SDO, the less likely they were to engage in environmental citizenship actions, pro-environmental behaviors and to donate to an environmental organization. Multilevel moderation results showed that the SDO–environmentalism relation was stronger in societies with marked societal inequality, lack of societal development, and environmental standards. The results highlight the interplay between individual psychological orientations and social context, as well as the view of nature subscribed to by those high in SDO.

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Social Dominance and Attitude towards Immigrants: The Key Role of Happiness

Social Sciences ◽

10.3390/socsci7080126 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (8) ◽

pp. 126

Author(s):

Angelo Panno

Keyword(s):

Social Dominance ◽

Social Dominance Orientation ◽

European Social Survey ◽

European Countries ◽

Social Survey ◽

Future Studies ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Political Conflicts ◽

The Relationship

War, famine, political conflicts and environmental factors (e.g., climate change) have increased the flow of immigrants into several European countries. Immigrants’ integration represents one of the most important challenges to our globalized society. Previous research has pointed out that social-dominant people show negative reactions towards immigrants. The present research is aimed at expanding and consolidating previous knowledge about immigrants’ research by proposing that: (i) citizens’ happiness is related to a favorable attitude towards immigrants; and (ii) social dominance orientation is related to attitude towards immigrants through happiness. In this study, a large sample recruited across different European countries (European Social Survey 2014 data, N = 40,185) has been considered. Measures of social dominance orientation, happiness and attitude towards immigrants have been assessed. Results showed that people’s happiness is related to favorable attitudes towards immigrants. Moreover, these results also showed the mediating role of happiness in the relationship between social dominance and attitude towards immigrants. Implications for future studies and policy strategies to support immigrants’ integration are discussed.

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Measuring Rape Myth Acceptance in Sweden: Psychometric Properties of the Swedish Acceptance of Modern Myths About Sexual Aggression Scale

10.31234/osf.io/h79t8 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Hanna Elin Fernsund ◽

Timothy John Luke

Keyword(s):

Psychometric Properties ◽

Social Dominance ◽

Sexual Aggression ◽

Convergent Validity ◽

English Language ◽

Social Dominance Orientation ◽

Rape Myth Acceptance ◽

Hostile Sexism ◽

Rape Myth ◽

Myth Acceptance

Traditional measures of rape myth acceptance (RMA) have been found to yield low means and skewed distributions, potentially due to containing outdated beliefs and too blatantly phrased items. The Acceptance of Modern Myths About Sexual Aggression Scale (AMMSA; Gerger et al., 2007) is a contemporary RMA measure which was developed to contain more subtly worded items and less severe forms of sexual aggression than traditional RMA scales. In this study, the English language AMMSA was translated into Swedish and the psychometric properties of the Swedish language AMMSA were assessed. The Swedish language AMMSA had desirable statistical properties and correlated positively with other relevant measures (e.g., hostile sexism, social dominance orientation) which supported its concurrent and convergent validity. However, inconsistent with previous research, which has found the AMMSA to be a unidimensional instrument, the Swedish language AMMSA may consist of multiple factors.

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