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Personality: dark traits and pathology

Psychological Entitlement Scale.

PES

What it measures
Psychological entitlement: a stable, pervasive sense that one deserves more and is entitled to more than others
Length and format
9 items. 6-pt Likert (1 = strong disagreement ... 6 = strong agreement) (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Many: 28-country study; ES, PT, DE, ZH, KO, etc.
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
public-domain / open

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Reference
Campbell, W. K., Bonacci, A. M., Shelton, J., Exline, J. J., & Bushman, B. J. (2004). Psychological entitlement: Interpersonal consequences and validation of a self-report measure. Journal of Personality Assessment, 83(1), 29-45.

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