Dogmatism Scale (Rokeach) / DOG Scale.

Dogmatism / DOG

What it measures

Dogmatism - closed-mindedness / rigidity of belief systems regardless of ideological content (a general authoritarian-of-the-left-or-right cognitive style); the revised DOG scale measures unjustified certainty in beliefs

Length and format

40 (Rokeach Form E); 20-item DOG scale (Altemeyer 2002). agreement Likert (typically 6- or 7-point, balanced in the DOG revision) (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Translated into many languages over decades (e.g. ES, DE, and others); historically very widely used

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

Rokeach, M. (1960). The Open and Closed Mind. Basic Books; Altemeyer, B. (2002). Dogmatic behavior among students. Journal of Social Psychology, 142, 713-721.