Scales and SPSS
Scales and some suggested SPSS syntax for statistical analyses.
If needed, here are some Decoy items for scales that you can enter to check that your participants are really reading the questionnaire.
APA has a large database with scales and measures - PsycTests. There's also a management scales repository.
See the How to guides for guides on the more advanced statistical analyses.
Various scales
Personal & Cultural Values
Schwartz personal values theory measurements
- MyPersonality - SVS : uses slightly different coding (code added to the MyPersonality Wiki site)
- PVQ-RR Revised PVQ
- SSVS - Short version of the Schwartz Values Scale (SVS)
- World Values Survey - a short PVQ of only 10 items.
Schwartz values - priming/indirect/behavior
- See Values priming using Sentence Unscrambling Task and Word Puzzle Task
- Implicit values - a new untested direction.
Cultural values
- Holistic tendency - Choi etal (2003, JPSP)
Other
- Social Value Orientation - Van Lange etal, 1997, JPSP
- More measures related to culture, values and self can be found here.
Unethicality
Scales
- Unethical Decision Making Scale - Detert, Trevino, & Sweitzer (2008) JAP
- Cheat–Lie–Steal scale - Detert, Trevino, & Sweitzer (2008) JAP
- unethical work behavior - Moore etal, Personnel Psychology, study 5.
- Propensity to engage in unethical behavior - Chen & Tang (2006, JBE)
- Ethical Judgments - Newstrom & Ruch (1975)
- Unethical Behavior in the workplace - Kaptein, JOM, 2008
- Pro-group unethical behavior - Thau et al., 2015, JAP
- Lying Tendencies Survey - Mann , Garcia-Rada, Houser, Ariely, 2014, PLOSone
Experiments
Implicit
Morality
- Ethics Position Questionnaire (EPQ) - Forsyth (1980)
- Moral Identity Scale - Aquino & Reed (2002)
- Moral disengagement scale - Moore et al. (2012, Personnel Psyc)
- Moralization of Everyday Life Scale Items (Lovett, Jordan, & Wiltermuth, 2012, Ethics & Behavior, IF 0.6)
- Moral foundations vignette (Behavior Research Methods, 2015)
- Oxford Utilitarianism Scale (Kahane & Everett, et al., 2018, PsycRev)
Biases and heuristics / Irrationality
- Decision making competence scale (de Bruin, Parker, & Fischhoff, 2007, JPSP, in the appendix)
Racism & Prejudice
Aggression
- Social information processing–attribution and emotional response questionnaire (SIP–AEQ) (Coccaro , Noblett, & McCloskey, 2009, Journal of Psychiatric Research)
Lay beliefs
- Lay theories scales (Kind of Person, Race, Ethnoculture, Moral, Intelligence)
- Mind Survey Gray etal. PNAS
- Belief in Good and Evil scale (Campbell & Vollhardt, 2013, PSPB)
- Belief in Pure Evil and Pure Good (BPE) (Webster & Saucier, 2013, PSPB)
- Dualism scale Preston, Ritter, & Hepler (2013, Cognition)
- Belief in Science scale (Farias, Newheiser, Kahane, & de Toledo, 2013, JESP)
Free Will, Determinism
- Free Will and Determinism scale (FAD; Paulhus & Margesson, 1994)
- Free Will and Determinism Plus scale (Paulhus & Carey, 2011)
- Free Will and Determinism scale FWD - Rakos, Laurene, Skala, & Slane, 2008, Behavior and Social Issues)
- Revised Causal Dimension Scale (CDSII) (McAuley, Duncan, & Russell, 1991, PSPB)
- Fate Attributions scale (Norenzayan & Lee, 2010, JPSP)
- Counterfactual thinking scale (Stanovich & West 1997, JEduPsy)
- Belief in Good Luck (haven't imported yet)
- Free-Will Intuitions Scale (O Deery, T Davis, J Carey, 2014, Philosophical Psychology)
- Moral agency scale (Black, 2017, social psychology)
- Fate control from the Social Axioms (link to 2012 paper)
Time related
- Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory - Zimbardo & Boyd 1999, includes a Present-Fatalistic subscale.
- Consideration of Future Consequences Scale (Strathman, Gleicher, Boninger, & Edwards, 1994)
The self
- Self Efficacy scale (Judge, Locke, Durham, & Kluger, 1998, JAP)
- Self-Esteem Scale (Rosenberg, 1965)
- Locus of Control - MHLC - Levenson, 1973 / 1981 (includes the full/short scale)
- Locus of Control Scale - Rotter, 1966
- Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ; Eysenck and Eysenck, 1975) - I used it as a 'lie scale'
- Striving scales (Barrick et al., 2002)
- Risk seeking aversion scale - International Personality Item Pool (2001) / Colquitt et al. 2006 OBHDP
- Achievement Motives Scale (AMS; Lang & Fries, 2006)
Action-inaction
- Action Control Scale (ACS-90)
- Action-State Orientation scale (will need to import it sometime, more details here)
Self Control related
- Regulatory focus scale (Lockwood, Jordan, & Kunda, 2002, JPSP)
- Self Control scale (Tangney, Baumeister & Boone, 2004, JOP)
- Ego Depletion scale (Finkel & Campbell, 2001, JPSP)
- Spheres of Control Scale measuring LOC - Paulhus 1981 JPSP / Paulhus & Van Selst 1990 PID
- Personal Mastery and Perceived Constraint scale Lachman and Weaver, 1998, JPSP
- Lack of control scale - Chou, Parmar, & Galinsky (2016, PsycSci)
- Desire for Control scale Burger & Cooper (1979, Motivation & Emotion), which is actually desire for choice
- State self control scale Ciarocco, N., Twenge, J., Muraven, M., & Tice, D. 2004 / Christian, M. S., & Ellis, A. J. (2011)
- A behavioral approach system (BAS) A behavioral avoidance (or inhibition) system (BIS) (Carver & White, 1994)
Creativity
- Prototypicality - Category Expansion (Category Inclusion Task; Rosch, 1975)
- Nonconforming responses - Creative Generation Task; Galinsky, Magee, Gruenfeld, Whitson, & Liljenquist, 2008
- Winged alien - Ward (1994), mentioned in Galinsky, Magee, Gruenfeld, Whitson, & Liljenquist, 2008
- Novel but useful associations - Remote Association Task; Mednick, 1962
- Atypical but useful insights - Duncker candle; Nine dots; Weisberg, 1996
Affect scales
- Guilt and Shame Proneness Scale (GASP) - Cohen etal (2011, JPSP)
- Regret Elements Scale (RES)
Towards others
- Empathic Concern Scale - Davis, 1980
- Prosocial Personality Battery (Penner, 2002)
Money / Power / Social class
- Money Ethic Scale Meaning of Money (Tang, 1992, JOB)
- Importance of Money Mitchell and Mickel (1999, AMR)
- Desire for money using coins Bruner and Goodman’s (1947)
- Sense of Power Scale Anderson, John, & Keltner (2012, JOP)
- Money Attitude Test Yamauchi & Donald (1982)
Choices
- Maximization scale (Nenkov, Morrin, Ward, Schwartz, & Hulland, JDM, 2008)
- Choice Regret Scale (Schwartz et al., 2002, JPSP)
- Choice-as-a-burden and choice-as-a-blessing (Roets et al., 2013, IJP)
Meaning in life
- The Meaning in Life Questionnaire needs authorization before use (Steger, Frazier, Oishi, & Kaler, 2006, Journal of Counseling Psychology)
- Sense of Coherence – Orientation to Life Questionnaire (Antonovsky, Aaron Unraveling the Mystery of Health. How People Manage Stress and Stay Well. San Francisco 1987)
- Purpose in Life Test (PIL) (Crumbaugh & Maholick, 1964)
- Daily Meaning Scale (DMS; Steger et al., 2008)
In the workplace
- Job efficacy scale (Spreitzer, 1995)
- Protestant Work Ethic Scale (Mirels & Garrett, 1971)
- Goal orientation scale Performance and learning goals - Vandewalle 1997
Freedom in the workplace
- Job Control (Smith, Tisak, Hahn, Schmieder, 1997, JOB)
- Job Autonomy Scale (Barrick & Mount, 1993, JAP)
Leadership
- Abusive supervision (Tepper, 2000, AMJ)
- Dual-Level Transformational Leadership (TFL) Scale (Wang & Howell, JAP, 2010)
- Ethical Leadership Scale (Brown, Treviño & Harrison, OBHDP, 2005)
Behaviors in the work place
- Counterproductive Work Behavior Checklist (CWB-C) (Spector, P. E., Fox, S., Penney, L. M., Bruursema, K., Goh, A., & Kessler, S., 2006)
Stress
- Perceived Stress Scale (Cohen et al., 1983)
Controls
Uncategorized
- Normative Swearing Scale (Gitter, Cougle, & Hamilton, unpublished)
Statistical analyses
- Hunter Schmidt meta-analysis uses some advanced SPSS macroing
- Word frequency macro
SPSS Operations
- Clean variable string using SPSS Python (much faster)
- Remove duplicates entries (choose first)