rightwing_authoritariansim
474,288 responses from 9,881 respondents to 48 items.
About this table
| Description | Data from a survey that probes facist ideologies to try to understand those regimes and their followers |
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| Reference | Altemeyer, B (2015). Right-wing Authoritarianism Scale [dataset and codebook]. https://openpsychometrics.org/_rawdata/RWAS.zip |
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| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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| Source data | http://openpsychometrics.org/_rawdata/ |
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Size and shape
| Responses | 474,288 |
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| Respondents | 9,881 |
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| Items | 48 |
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| Response categories | 10 |
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| Responses per respondent | 48 |
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| Responses per item | 9,881 |
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| Density | 1 |
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| Longitudinal | FALSE |
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Classification
| age range | Adult (18+) |
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| sample | General/non-specific |
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| construct type | Opinion/attitude |
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| measurement tool | Survey/questionnaire |
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| item format | Likert Scale/selected response |
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| primary language(s) | eng |
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| construct name | Right Wing Authoritarianism |
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Item text
This table has item text in the IRW: the wording administered to respondents, not just the response codes.
| Instrument | Right-wing Authoritarianism Scale (RWAS), with the Ten Item Personality Inventory (TIPI) and a vocabulary check list (VCL) |
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| Mean words per item | 15.600 |
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| Mean characters per item | 93.903 |
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| Mean characters per response | 15.953 |
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| Flesch-Kincaid grade level | 10.090 |
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Get the data
Or load it directly in R or Python:
# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("rightwing_authoritariansim")
# Python
pip install irw
import irw
df = irw.fetch("rightwing_authoritariansim")
Version and provenance
| IRW version | v393 |
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| Redivis dataset | item_response_warehouse v53.0 |
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| Redivis dataset DOI | 10.57761/4g08-xt41 |
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| Manifest pin for this IRW version | v53.0 |
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| Metadata source | irw_meta v23.0 |
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