Graduation Semester and Year

2014

Language

English

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science in Psychology

Department

Psychology

First Advisor

Shannon Scielzo

Abstract

The goal of this project was to update the social dominance orientation (SDO) scale by creating a separate measure for its subfactor group based dominance (GBD), which is defined as how strongly a person feels one group should dominate another. A pilot study was conducted with the GBD scale composed of 24 items. After being rated by subject matter experts and undergoing exploratory factor analysis, it was reduced to just 12 items. The current cross-validation study administered the revised scale and compared its performance to the original SDO scale by examining how well each predicted various attitudes. Overall, the GBD scale had good reliability and validity but did not outperform its older counterpart. Further refinement and research are needed in order to improve the scale. Despite its shortcomings, the GBD scale was a necessary step in updating the social dominance orientation scale.

Disciplines

Psychology | Social and Behavioral Sciences

Comments

Degree granted by The University of Texas at Arlington

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