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F-Scale Test

You are here because one of your friends linked you to their F-Scale result:

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Your friend's results:

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This makes your friend 18.6% more authoritarian than the average person.

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Explanation of Facets:

Conventionalism

Rigid adherence to conventional, middle-class values.

Your Friend's Score: High

Authoritarian Submission

Submissive, uncritical attitude towards the idealized authorities of the group.

Your Friend's Score: Average

Authoritarian Aggression

Tendency to be alert to, condemn, reject, and to want to punish people who violate conventional values.

Your Friend's Score: Average

Anti-Intraception

Opposition to the subjective and the imaginative, as well as a dislike of abstract art and tender-minded people.

Your Friend's Score: High

Superstition-Stereotypy

Superstitious beliefs about the determinants of the individual's fate and the disposition to think in rigid categories.

Your Friend's Score: High

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 Friend's Score: Low

Destructiveness-Cynicism

Generalized hostility to things not in line with one's personal values, and the devaluation of human life and tendencies.

Your Friend's Score: High

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 Friend's Score: Average

Anti-Degeneracy

Concern with the sexual "goings-on" of others and resistance to sexual degeneracy within one’s group.

Your Friend's Score: Low

Total Score

Your friend's total F score, meaning your friend's receptivity to authoritarian/fascist beliefs.

For another approach to testing for fascist beliefs, see our Fascism Test.

Your Friend's Score: Average

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)