Despotic Leadership Scale.
DL (De Hoogh-Den Hartog)
- What it measures
- Despotic leadership - authoritarian, domineering, self-aggrandizing leader behaviour that exploits followers and demands unquestioning obedience.
- Length and format
- 6 items. 5-point Likert; subordinate report (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Several incl. NL (original), EN, ES, ZH, UR (validated adaptations; widely used in South-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
- De Hoogh, A. H. B., & Den Hartog, D. N. (2008). Ethical and despotic leadership... The Leadership Quarterly, 19, 297-311. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2008.03.002
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