Varieties of Sadistic Tendencies.
VAST
Everyday sadism in two facets: Direct sadism (9 items: pleasure harming others physically/verbally) and Vicarious sadism (7 items: pleasure observing harm)
- Provisionally grouped under
- Length and format
- 16 items. 5-pt Likert (strongly disagree - strongly agree) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Several: PT-BR (Brazilian), + others.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Paulhus, D. L., & Jones, D. N. (in Buckels, E. E., 2018). See psytoolkit.org VAST + Buckels (2023) chapter.
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