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A short scale to measure self-righteousness.

T Falbo¹, S S Belk

¹Dept. of Educational Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, 78712, USA.

Journal of Personality Assessment

|April 1, 1985

Summary

Researchers developed and tested a scale to measure self-righteousness, the belief in one's own correctness. The scale showed reliability and validity, proving useful for assessing this psychological trait.

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Area of Science:

Psychology
Social Psychology

Background:

Self-righteousness, defined as the conviction of one's own correctness, is a significant psychological construct.
Understanding and measuring self-righteousness is crucial for various fields, including social psychology and personality research.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and validate a reliable and valid scale for measuring self-righteousness.
To explore the relationship between general self-righteousness and other psychological constructs.
To assess the utility of content-specific versions of the self-righteousness scale.

Main Methods:

Two studies were conducted to create and test the self-righteousness scale.
Study 1 involved deriving a 4-item general scale and assessing its internal consistency and correlations with dogmatism and ambiguity intolerance.
Study 2 adapted the scale items to be specific to running a race, testing its predictive validity and the benefit of content specificity.

Main Results:

The general self-righteousness scale demonstrated adequate internal consistency.
The scale was found to be related to dogmatism and ambiguity intolerance.
The race-specific scale demonstrated predictive validity, confirming the usefulness of tailoring items to specific content areas.

Conclusions:

A reliable and valid scale for measuring self-righteousness was successfully developed.
The scale's general form relates to key personality traits.
Adapting the scale to specific contexts enhances its predictive power, highlighting the importance of content specificity in psychological measurement.

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