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

IF 1.8 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL Journal of Social and Political Psychology Pub Date : 2021-09-16 DOI:10.5964/jspp.6919

Julian Aichholzer, Clemens M. Lechner

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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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改良短期社会支配倾向量表(SSDO):在七个欧洲国家的验证

人们和社会在为不平等和群体等级制度辩护的倾向上各不相同，这一动机被称为社会支配取向（SDO）。为了有效地测量这种动机倾向，Pratto及其同事（2013，https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550612473663)提出了四项短期社会支配取向量表。本研究全面评估了七个欧洲国家（奥地利、捷克共和国、德国、法国、匈牙利、意大利和波兰）的SSDO量表的心理测量特性。使用来自这些国家的大量不同样本，我们提出了一个测量模型来评估量表的结构有效性，并评估了测量不变性（MI）、可靠性和收敛有效性。结果表明，该量表足够可靠，在理论上显示出可预测性，并与各国的外部标准保持一致，在七个国家中至少表现出部分标量和部分唯一性MI，在性别中表现出完全MI。这些发现为SSDO量表的心理测量质量及其在跨国家和多主题社会调查中的有用性提供了支持。

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Journal of Social and Political Psychology Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science

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