F-scale (personality test)
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The California F-scale is a 1947 personality test, designed by Theodor W. Adorno and others to measure the authoritarian personality. The scale specifically examines the following personality dimensions:
- Conventionalism: conformity to the traditional societal norms and values of the middle class
- Authoritarian submission: a passive notion towards adhering to conventional norms and values
- Authoritarian aggression: punishing and condemning individuals who don't adhere to conventional values
- Religion and Ethics
- Superstition and Stereotypy
- Power and "Toughness"
- Anti-intraception: "rejection of all inwardness, of the subjective, the imaginative, the tender-minded, and of self-criticism"
- Destructiveness and Cynicism: generalized hostility, vilification of the human
- Projectivity: the disposition to believe that wild and dangerous things go on in the world; the projection outwards of unconscious emotional impulses
- Sex: exaggerated concern with sexual "goings-on"
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