Abstract

ETCHEZAHAR, Edgardo; PRADO-GASCO, Vicente; JAUME, Luis  and  BRUSSINO, Silvina. Argentinian validation of the Social Dominance Orientation Scale. rev.latinoam.psicol. [online]. 2014, vol.46, n.1, pp.35-43. ISSN 0120-0534.

The Social Dominance Theory explains individuals' desire to establish and maintain social hierarchies by subordination of certain groups upon others. The Social Dominance Orientation Scale was constructed so as to evaluate individual differences in this construct. Originally, the first version of the scales had a unidimensional structure; however, subsequent research studies have reported the existence of a two-factor structure: Opposition to Equality and Dominance group. The main objective of this paper is that of adapting and validating the Social Dominance Orientation Scale, in order to analyze its dimensionality and thus verifydifferences in accordance with the gender of participants. To this end, we collected a non-probabilistic sample of college students from Buenos Aires (N = 1201), with different gender and age. According to the results, the two correlated factor model fit to databetter than the unidimensional approach did, and presents adequate levels of reliability (.74 < α < .85). Besides, we provide of convergent validity with right-wing authoritarianism and with the gender of participants.

Keywords : Social Dominance; Group Dominance; Opposition to Equality; SDO; RWA.

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