F-Scale Test
You are here because one of your friends linked you to their F-Scale result:
Take the TestYour friend's results:
This makes your friend 18.6% more authoritarian than the average person.
Take the TestExplanation 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)