TY - RPRT
T1 - Authoritarianism Short Scale (KSA-3)
T2 - Zusammenstellung sozialwissenschaftlicher Items und Skalen (ZIS)
AU - Nießen, D
AU - Schmidt, I
AU - Beierlein, C
AU - Lechner, C. M.
DO - https://zis.gesis.org/DoiId/zis272
UR - 10.6102/zis272
AB - The Authoritarianism Short Scale - the
English-language adaptation of the Kurzskala Autoritarismus (KSA-3) - measures
the psychological disposition of authoritarianism and its three subdimensions aggression, submissiveness, and conventionalism
with a total of 9 items (completion time
< 1 min). The items of the German-language source version were
translated into English using the TRAPD approach. Our empirical validation
based on a heterogeneous quota sample in the UK showed that all the reliability
and validity coefficients of the English-language adaptation are satisfactory
and comparable to those of the German-language source version. Moreover, the
results of measurement invariance testing suggested that partial scalar measurement
invariance of the scale holds when comparing the UK and Germany, thus, implying
the comparability of latent means across the two countries. As short scale, KSA-3
lends itself to the assessment of authoritarianism particularly in survey
contexts in which assessment time or questionnaire space are limited. It is
applicable in a variety of research disciplines, including psychology,
sociology, and economics.
PY - 2019
PB - ZIS - GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
LA - en
SN - http://zis.gesis.org/