Values, attitudes, ideology and morality.
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- AMI - Ambivalence toward Men Inventory
Ambivalent attitudes toward men - Hostility toward Men (resentment of paternalism, compensatory gender differentiation, heterosexual hostility) and Benevolence toward Men (maternalism, complementary gender differentiation, heterosexual intimacy)
Attribution20 (10 Hostility toward Men + 10 Benevolence toward Men) - ASI - Ambivalent Sexism Inventory
Ambivalent sexism toward women on 2 correlated dimensions: Hostile Sexism (antipathy toward women who challenge men's status) and Benevolent Sexism (subjectively positive but patronising, protective attitudes)
Attribution22 (11 Hostile + 11 Benevolent) - ATLG - Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gay Men Scale
Sexual prejudice - attitudes toward lesbians (ATL) and toward gay men (ATG) as separate but correlated subscales
Attribution20 (10 ATL + 10 ATG); ATLG-S short form 10; ATLG-R revised wording - AWS - Attitudes Toward Women Scale
Attitudes toward the rights, roles, and privileges of women (traditional vs egalitarian gender-role attitudes)
Attribution55 (original 1972); 25-item (1973); 15-item (1978) short form most used - BIDR / PDS - Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding
Socially desirable responding split into 2 components: Self-Deceptive Enhancement (SDE, honest but overly favourable self-view) and Impression Management (IM, deliberate other-directed faking)
Mixed40 (20 SDE + 20 IM) in BIDR Version 6 - BJW (GBJW/PBJW) - Belief in a Just World Scales (General and Personal)
Belief that the world is a just place where people get what they deserve; differentiated into General BJW (the world broadly is just) and Personal BJW (events in MY own life are just)
AttributionGeneral BJW = 6 items; Personal BJW = 7 items (Dalbert); Lipkus Global BJW = 7 items - Belk MS - Belk Materialism Scale
Materialism as a constellation of personality traits: Possessiveness, Non-generosity, and Envy (Tangibility/Preservation added in later versions)
Attribution24 (Possessiveness 9, Non-generosity 7, Envy 8) in the 1985 version - BSRI - Bem Sex-Role Inventory
Psychological masculinity and femininity as independent dimensions; classifies people as masculine, feminine, androgynous, or undifferentiated (gender-role self-concept, not attitudes)
Restricted60 (20 masculine + 20 feminine + 20 neutral filler); 30-item short form (10/10/10) - BSP (Pettigrew-Meertens) - Blatant and Subtle Prejudice Scale
Intergroup prejudice toward outgroups on 2 dimensions: Blatant prejudice (open rejection, threat, opposition to intimacy) and Subtle prejudice (defense of traditional values, exaggeration of cultural differences, denial of positive emotions toward the outgroup)
Attribution20 (10 blatant + 10 subtle) - BMMRS - Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality
Multiple domains of religiousness/spirituality relevant to health: daily spiritual experiences, values/beliefs, forgiveness, private religious practices, religious/spiritual coping, religious support, religious/spiritual history, commitment, organisational religiousness, and overall self-ranking
Open38 (full BMMRS); shorter derived subsets - F-Scale - California F-Scale (Fascism Scale)
Authoritarian personality syndrome: 9 facets (conventionalism, authoritarian submission, authoritarian aggression, anti-intraception, superstition/stereotypy, power/toughness, destructiveness/cynicism, projectivity, exaggerated concern with sex)
Open~30 (Form 45/40; several earlier forms with differing counts) - CRS - Centrality of Religiosity Scale
Centrality/salience of religion in personality across 5 core dimensions: Intellect (interest), Ideology (belief), Public practice, Private practice, and Religious Experience
Attribution15 (CRS-15; 3 per dimension); also CRS-10 and CRS-5; interreligious forms CRSi-7/14/20 - CFNI - Conformity to Feminine Norms Inventory
Conformity to dominant Western feminine norms - Nice in Relationships, Thinness, Modesty, Domestic, Care for Children, Romantic Relationship, Sexual Fidelity, Invest in Appearance
Attribution84 (CFNI-45 short form 45) - CMNI - Conformity to Masculine Norms Inventory
Conformity to dominant cultural masculine norms across facets such as Winning, Emotional Control, Risk-Taking, Violence, Power over Women, Playboy, Self-Reliance, Primacy of Work, Disdain for Homosexuals, Pursuit of Status
Attribution94 (CMNI original); CMNI-46 and CMNI-30 short forms - CNS - Connectedness to Nature Scale
Affective and experiential sense of oneness with the natural world; treated as the emotional counterpart to cognitive environmental worldview measures
Attribution14 (the single-item Inclusion of Nature in Self is a separate alternative measure, not a CNS short form) - CMQ - Conspiracy Mentality QuestionnaireLength: Under 10 items
Conspiracy mentality - the content-free generalised political attitude that powerful groups act in secret against the common interest
Attribution5 items - CVSCALE (Individual Cultural Values Scale)
Hofstede's 5 cultural value dimensions measured at the INDIVIDUAL level: Power Distance, Uncertainty Avoidance, Collectivism, Masculinity, Long-Term Orientation
Attribution26 (5 dimensions; 4-6 items each) - DSES - Daily Spiritual Experiences Scale
Frequency of ordinary, everyday spiritual experiences (awe, gratitude, compassionate love, sense of the transcendent, inner peace, desire for closeness to the divine) - a measure of lived spirituality rather than belief or practice
Attribution16 (15 frequency items + 1 global closeness-to-God item); 6-item short form (GSS) - DIT / DIT-2 - Defining Issues Test
Moral judgement development in the Kohlbergian tradition - the degree to which a person uses post-conventional (principled) moral reasoning when evaluating moral dilemmas; yields P-score and N2 index, plus schema scores (Personal Interest, Maintaining Norms, Postconventional)
Restricted6 dilemmas (DIT) / 5 dilemmas (DIT-2), each with 12 rated + ranked considerations - Dogmatism Scale (Rokeach) / DOG Scale
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
Attribution40 (Rokeach Form E); 20-item DOG scale (Altemeyer 2002) - DUREL - Duke University Religion Index
Religious involvement on 3 dimensions: Organisational Religious Activity (ORA), Non-Organisational Religious Activity (NORA), and Intrinsic Religiosity (IR)
Attribution5 (1 ORA + 1 NORA + 3 IR) - EPQ (Forsyth) - Ethics Position Questionnaire
Ethical ideology on 2 orthogonal dimensions: Idealism (concern that actions not harm others) and Relativism (rejection of universal moral rules); yields 4 ethical types (situationist, absolutist, subjectivist, exceptionist)
Attribution20 (10 Idealism + 10 Relativism) - EPQ-L / L-scale - Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Lie Scale
Lie / social-desirability validity scale embedded in the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire; flags 'faking good' / dissimulation (and, debatably, a stable conformity trait)
Restricted21 (EPQ-R Lie subscale); ~21 in EPQ; shorter in EPQ-R-Short - FACIT-Sp - Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy - Spiritual Well-Being
Spiritual well-being (non-denominational) on 3 facets: Meaning, Peace, and Faith (often split as Meaning/Peace = existential vs Faith)
Restricted12 (FACIT-Sp-12); expanded FACIT-Sp-Ex (23 items) - GRCS - Gender Role Conflict Scale
Men's gender-role conflict - Success/Power/Competition, Restrictive Emotionality, Restrictive Affectionate Behavior Between Men, Conflict Between Work and Family Relations
Attribution37 (GRCS-SF 16; GRCS-A adolescent 29) - GCB - Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale
Generic conspiracist ideation across five facets - government malfeasance, malevolent global conspiracies, extraterrestrial cover-up, personal wellbeing threats, control of information
Attribution15 (GCB-5 short form 5) - GLOBE Culture and Leadership Scales
Societal and organisational culture on 9 dimensions, each measured as both Practices (as is) and Values (should be): Power Distance, Uncertainty Avoidance, Institutional Collectivism, In-Group Collectivism, Gender Egalitarianism, Assertiveness, Future Orientation, Performance Orientation, Humane Orientation; plus culturally endorsed leadership dimensions
Attribution~78 culture items (practices + values across 9 dimensions) plus leadership items - INDCOL (HVIC) - Horizontal-Vertical Individualism-Collectivism Scale
Individualism-collectivism crossed with horizontal (equality) vs vertical (hierarchy) emphasis: Horizontal Individualism, Vertical Individualism, Horizontal Collectivism, Vertical Collectivism
Attribution32 (8 per dimension) in Singelis et al. 1995; 16-item version (Triandis & Gelfand 1998) - MPM / PMI - Inglehart Materialism / Post-Materialism Index
Materialist vs post-materialist value priorities (physical/economic security vs self-expression, belonging, participation, quality of life)
Open4-item short index (2 materialist + 2 post-materialist goals) and a 12-item battery (rank national priorities) - IRMS / Hoge - Intrinsic Religious Motivation Scale (Hoge)
Intrinsic religious motivation - the extent to which religion is the master motive that integrates and directs one's life (a refinement of Allport's intrinsic orientation)
Attribution10 (Hoge 1972) - L-R self-placement - Left-Right / Liberal-Conservative Political Self-Placement
Self-reported political ideology on a single bipolar dimension (left vs right, or liberal vs conservative)
Open1 (single item; sometimes paired with economic + social ideology items) - LWA - Left-Wing Authoritarianism Index
Left-wing authoritarianism on 3 dimensions: Anti-Hierarchical Aggression, Top-Down Censorship, and Anti-Conventionalism
Attribution39 (full index); brief machine-learning-derived forms of 13 and 25 items, and a 4-item version - LOV (Kahle) - List of Values
Personal values salient in daily life and consumer behaviour: sense of belonging, excitement, warm relationships with others, self-fulfilment, being well-respected, fun and enjoyment in life, security, self-respect, sense of accomplishment (9 values, often grouped into internal vs external)
Attribution9 (rate and/or rank-order 9 values) - MC-SDS - Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale
Social desirability response bias - the tendency to give culturally approved, approval-seeking answers (need for approval); used as a validity/response-style control
Open33 (original); many short forms (e.g. Strahan & Gerbasi 10- and 20-item; Reynolds Forms A/B/C of 11-13 items; X1) - MVS - Material Values Scale (Materialism Scale)
Materialism as a personal value, on 3 facets: Success (using possessions to judge success), Centrality (possessions central to life), Happiness (possessions as a route to happiness/well-being)
Attribution18 (original; 6 per facet); revised 15-item; short forms of 9/6/3 items - MS / MRS - Modern Sexism Scale (and Modern Racism Scale)
Contemporary, covert prejudice: denial of continuing discrimination, antagonism toward minority/women's demands, and resentment of special favours (Modern Sexism toward women; the parallel Modern/Symbolic Racism toward race)
AttributionModern Sexism = 8 items; Modern Racism = 7 items (plus an Old-Fashioned Sexism/Racism companion scale) - MDS / PMD - Moral Disengagement Scale (and the Propensity to Morally Disengage Scale)
Bandura's eight mechanisms of moral disengagement - moral justification, euphemistic labelling, advantageous comparison, displacement and diffusion of responsibility, distortion of consequences, dehumanisation, attribution of blame
Attribution32 (Bandura et al. 1996, children/adolescents); 24 and 8 (Moore et al. 2012 adult PMD forms) - MFQ / MFQ-30 - Moral Foundations Questionnaire
Moral Foundations Theory: Care/Harm, Fairness/Cheating, Loyalty/Betrayal, Authority/Subversion, Sanctity/Purity (often summarised as Individualising vs Binding foundations)
Attribution32 (30 scored, 6 per foundation, across a relevance block + a judgement block; plus 2 catch/foil items) - MFQ-2 - Moral Foundations Questionnaire-2
Revised Moral Foundations Theory with 6 foundations: Care, Equality, Proportionality (Fairness split into Equality + Proportionality), Loyalty, Authority, Purity
Attribution36 (6 per foundation) - MFV - Moral Foundations Vignettes
Moral Foundations Theory measured via concrete behavioural transgressions across the 6 foundations (Care, Fairness, Loyalty, Authority, Sanctity, plus Liberty in some sets)
Attribution90 standardised vignettes (a stimulus database; researchers sample subsets) - MIS - Moral Identity Scale (Self-Importance of Moral Identity)
The degree to which being a moral person is central to one's self-concept, on 2 dimensions: Internalization (moral traits are central to the private self) and Symbolization (moral identity expressed in public actions)
Attribution10 (5 Internalization + 5 Symbolization), anchored to 9 moral-trait adjectives - MDBS - Morally Debatable Behaviours Scale
Permissiveness toward morally debatable behaviours - how justifiable a person finds acts such as lying, cheating on taxes, accepting a bribe, etc.; typically yields a personal-dishonesty/illegality dimension and a sexual/self-determination dimension
Open~21 (Harding & Phillips); subsets used in the World/European Values Surveys - M-Scale - Mysticism Scale (Hood M-Scale)
Reported mystical experience along Stace's common-core dimensions - introvertive mysticism, extrovertive mysticism, and religious/noetic interpretation
Attribution32 (M-Scale); short forms of 8-16 items in use - NAT / PAT - Nationalism and Patriotism Scales (Kosterman & Feshbach)
National attachment differentiated into patriotism (affective attachment to one's country), nationalism (belief in national superiority and dominance), plus internationalism, civil liberties, and smugness subscales
Attributionapprox 120 item pool reduced to subscales; patriotism approx 12 and nationalism approx 8 items in standard use (counts vary by study, unverified) - NFCS / NFC - Need for Closure Scale
Need for cognitive closure - desire for a firm, definite answer and aversion to ambiguity; facets: Preference for Order, Preference for Predictability, Decisiveness, Discomfort with Ambiguity, Closed-Mindedness
Attribution42 (original; 41-item revised dropping a lie subscale); 15-item brief (Roets & Van Hiel 2011) - NEP - New Ecological Paradigm Scale
Endorsement of a pro-ecological worldview (limits to growth, anti-anthropocentrism, fragility of nature's balance, rejection of human exemptionalism, possibility of eco-crisis)
Attribution15 (revised 2000; 8 pro-NEP + 7 pro-DSP items); original New Environmental Paradigm = 12 items (1978) - PAQ - Personal Attributes Questionnaire
Gender-related personality traits as 2 dimensions: Instrumentality/agency ('masculine') and Expressiveness/communion ('feminine'), plus a bipolar M-F scale; self-concept rather than attitudes
Attribution24 (8 Masculinity + 8 Femininity + 8 Masculinity-Femininity bipolar) in the short form; 55-item long form - PVQ-21 / HVS - Portrait Values Questionnaire - 21 item (ESS Human Values Scale)
Schwartz 10 basic values via short verbal self-portraits; standard European Social Survey 'Human Values Scale'; collapses to 2 higher-order value axes
Attribution21 portraits (Universalism = 3 items; the other 9 values = 2 items each) - PVQ-40 - Portrait Values Questionnaire - 40 item
Schwartz 10 basic values measured with verbal self-portraits (more items per value than the ESS-21)
Attribution40 portraits (3-6 per value) - PVQ-RR - Portrait Values Questionnaire - Revised (Refined Theory)
Refined Schwartz theory: 19 more narrowly defined values on the same circular continuum (e.g. Universalism split into Nature/Concern/Tolerance; Power split into Dominance/Resources; Security, Conformity, Face, Humility, etc.), recoverable to the original 10 and to 4 higher-order values
Attribution57 portraits (3 items per each of the 19 values) - PWE - Protestant Work Ethic Scale
Endorsement of the Protestant work ethic - belief in hard work, self-discipline, frugality, and the moral worth of labour as ends in themselves (independent of religious belief)
Attribution19 (Mirels & Garrett 1971); short forms exist; later multidimensional versions (e.g. MWEP, 7 dimensions) - Quest Religious Orientation Scale
Quest orientation to religion: open-ended engagement with existential questions, viewing doubt as positive, and openness to change - a third orientation beyond Intrinsic/Extrinsic
Attribution12 (4 items each for: readiness to face existential questions, self-criticism/positive doubt, openness to change) - RCI-10 - Religious Commitment Inventory-10
Religious commitment - the degree to which a person adheres to and applies their religious values, beliefs, and practices; 2 facets: Intrapersonal religious commitment and Interpersonal religious commitment
Attribution10 (6 intrapersonal + 4 interpersonal); 6-item short form - RF / RRF - Religious Fundamentalism Scale (Revised)
Religious fundamentalism: belief in one inerrant set of religious truths, an essential us-vs-them struggle against evil, and the need to follow fundamental practices of the past
Attribution20 (original 1992); 12 (revised 2004) - ROS (I/E) - Religious Orientation Scale
Motivation for religion: Intrinsic orientation (religion as a master motive / end in itself) vs Extrinsic orientation (religion as a means to social, comfort, or security ends)
Attribution20 (9 Intrinsic + 11 Extrinsic) in the Allport-Ross original - RWA - Right-Wing Authoritarianism Scale
Right-wing authoritarianism: covariation of Authoritarian Submission, Authoritarian Aggression, and Conventionalism
Attribution~30 (Altemeyer's original; the scale was re-balanced/re-issued many times, so item counts vary by edition; a 21-item North-American form exists) - RVS - Rokeach Value Survey
Two value systems: 18 terminal values (desirable end-states, e.g. a comfortable life, freedom, wisdom) and 18 instrumental values (desirable modes of conduct, e.g. honest, ambitious, broad-minded)
Restricted36 values (18 terminal + 18 instrumental) - SCSRFQ - Santa Clara Strength of Religious Faith Questionnaire
Strength of religious faith (a brief, nondenominational global index of faith importance, religious behaviour, coping, and identity)
Attribution10 (original); 5-item brief version - Schwartz 7 (culture-level) - Schwartz Cultural Value Orientations
Culture-level value orientations (the societal counterpart to the individual Schwartz values) on 7 orientations forming 3 bipolar dimensions: Embeddedness vs Autonomy (Intellectual + Affective), Hierarchy vs Egalitarianism, Mastery vs Harmony
Attributionderived from the SVS-57 items scored at the culture (country-mean) level (a subset of value items) - SVS (SVS-57) - Schwartz Value Survey
Schwartz theory of basic human values: 10 motivationally distinct value types (Self-Direction, Stimulation, Hedonism, Achievement, Power, Security, Conformity, Tradition, Benevolence, Universalism) on a circular continuum, summarised by 2 higher-order axes (Openness-to-Change vs Conservation; Self-Enhancement vs Self-Transcendence)
Attribution57 value items (45 enter the 10 value indices; ~12 additional items aid standardisation)