Assessment of Sadistic Personality.

ASP

What it measures

Subclinical/everyday sadism: pleasure from subjugation, humiliation, intimidation, aggression; low empathy

Length and format

9 (ASP); 8 (ASP-8 revised). 5-pt Likert (strongly disagree - strongly agree) (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Several: RU, EL, RS (Serbian), + the GB English; growing.

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

Plouffe, R. A., Saklofske, D. H., & Smith, M. M. (2017). The Assessment of Sadistic Personality: Preliminary psychometric evidence for a new measure. Personality and Individual Differences, 104, 166-171.