F-Scale Test
Your results:
This makes you 29.4% less authoritarian than the average person.
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Explanation of Facets:
Conventionalism
Rigid adherence to conventional, middle-class values.
Your Score: Very Low
Authoritarian Submission
Submissive, uncritical attitude towards the idealized authorities of the group.
Your Score: Very Low
Authoritarian Aggression
Tendency to be alert to, condemn, reject, and to want to punish people who violate conventional values.
Your Score: Very Low
Anti-Intraception
Opposition to the subjective and the imaginative, as well as a dislike of abstract art and tender-minded people.
Your Score: Low
Superstition-Stereotypy
Superstitious beliefs about the determinants of the individual's fate and the disposition to think in rigid categories.
Your Score: Very Low
Power-Toughness
Preoccupation with dominance-submission and leader-follower dynamics, as well as identification with power figures and the tendency to want to assert strength and toughness.
Your Score: Very Low
Destructiveness-Cynicism
Generalized hostility to things not in line with one's personal values, and the devaluation of human life and tendencies.
Your Score: Low
Projectivity
Disposition to suspect that wild and dangerous things go behind closed doors, that one's group is losing control and that traditional society is headed towards destruction.
Your Score: Low
Anti-Degeneracy
Concern with the sexual "goings-on" of others and resistance to sexual degeneracy within one’s group.
Your Score: Very Low
Total Score
Your total F score, meaning your receptivity to authoritarian/fascist beliefs.
For another approach to testing for fascist beliefs, see our Fascism Test.
Your Score: Very Low
References
- T. W. Adorno et al.: The Authoritarian Personality (Harper & Brothers 1950)
- Mark R. Leary & Rick H. Hoyle (eds.): Handbook of Individual Differences in Social Behavior (The Guilford Press 2009)
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