Abusive Supervision Scale.
ASB (Tepper)
- What it measures
- Abusive supervision - subordinates' perceptions of sustained hostile verbal and non-verbal supervisor behaviours (ridicule, put-downs, broken promises), excluding physical contact.
- Length and format
- 15 (also a 5-item short form). 5-point frequency Likert; subordinate report (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Many languages incl. ZH, ES, PT, KO, TR, DE, AR (extensively validated, esp. in East-Asian samples).
- 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
- Tepper, B. J. (2000). Consequences of abusive supervision. Academy of Management Journal, 43, 178-190. https://doi.org/10.5465/1556375
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