Prosocialness Scale for Adults.
PSA
- What it measures
- adult prosocial tendencies - helping, sharing, caring for and empathizing with others (a single prosocialness dimension)
- Length and format
- 16 items. 5-point frequency (1 never/almost never true to 5 almost always/always true); summed total (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- several incl. IT, EN, ES, ZH; used cross-culturally in prosociality research
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Caprara, G. V., Steca, P., Zelli, A., & Capanna, C. (2005). A new scale for measuring adults' prosocialness. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 21(2), 77-89.
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