Construction of a short version of the right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) scale.

By Ingrid Zakrisson. 2005

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Sociology and Political Science

1. John T. Jost
2. Ravi Iyer
3. Jonathan Haidt
4. Jesse Graham
5. Brian A. Nosek
6. Peter H. Ditto
7. Spassena P. Koleva
8. J. Duckitt

Citations in the corpus

• The threat of increasing diversity: Why many White Americans support Trump in the 2016 presidential election (2018, methodology): “We assessed RWA immediately following ethnic identification with a 15-item scale (Zakrisson, 2005; α = .94).”
• Political conservatism and variety-seeking (2014, methodology): “This scale has been criticized for using extreme wording on certain items (Zakrisson, 2005).”
• Collective Narcissism Predicts Hypersensitivity to In–group Insult and Direct and Indirect Retaliatory Intergroup Hostility (2016, methodology): “Right-wing authoritarianism was measured by a 10-item version of the Right-Wing Authoritarianism Scale (Zakrisson, 2005), α= .66, M=3.65 , SD= .82.”
• Mapping the Moral Domain (2011, methodology): “Ingroup scales were the importance of being loyal/faithful on Barriga et al.'s Good-Self scale and endorsement of loyalty, national security, and family security items on the SVS. Authority scales were Right- Wing Authoritarianism (Zakrisson, 2005; n ϭ 1,093); the Traditionalism subscale of the Prog”
• Investigating Right Wing Authoritarianism With a Very Short Authoritarianism Scale (2018, methodology): “…RWA scale developed by Mavor et al. (2012), a 14-item Italian version of the RWA scale (Rattazzi, Bobbio, & Canova (2007), a 15-item Swedish RWA scale (Zakrisson, 2005), an 11-item Dutch RWA scale (Van Hiel, Duriez, & Kossowska, 2006), and an 18-item short-form ACT scale (Duckitt et al., 2010).”
• Perceived Conflict and Leader Dominance: Individual and Contextual Factors Behind Preferences for Dominant Leaders (2017, methodology): “RWA was measured with a balanced set of eight items adopted from Zakrisson (2005) forming a somewhat reliable scale which we recode to 0-1 with “0” and “1” reflecting minimal and maximum RWA, respectively (α=0.522, M=0.551, SD=0.130) (see Supplementary Materials S.3 for exact question…”
• Meta-analysing the association between social dominance orientation, authoritarianism, and attitudes on the environment and climate change (2019, neutral): “…type (SDO: full, shortened SDO scales (Pratto, Sidanius, Stallworth, & Malle, 1994), SDO7 (Ho et al., 2012), other; RWA: full, shortened RWA scale (Altemeyer, 1998), Zakrisson (2005) scale, ACT (Duckitt, Bizumic, Krauss, & Heled, 2010) as categorical moderators using random-effects models in CMA.”
• Tracing the threads: How five moral concerns (especially Purity) help explain culture war attitudes (2012, background): “Moral foundations and alternative models Because web visitors can take multiple surveys, a portions of our sample had also completed measures of Right Wing Authoritarianism (RWA, Zakrisson, 2005) and Social Dominance Orientation (SDO, Sidanius & Pratto, 2001).”
• Genetic and Environmental Transmission of Political Orientations (2013, methodology): “The second personality measure is a right-wing authoritarianism scale created using the average of responses to a shortened 15-item battery developed by Zakrisson (2005).”