Assessment of Sadistic Personality.
ASP
Subclinical/everyday sadism: pleasure from subjugation, humiliation, intimidation, aggression; low empathy
- Provisionally grouped under
- Length and format
- 9 (ASP); 8 (ASP-8 revised). 5-pt Likert (strongly disagree - strongly agree) (self-report questionnaire)
- 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.
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