Development of the Japanese Version of the Short Social Dominance Scale (SSDO)

• DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/8k6yr
• Publication Date: 2024-03-18T15:33:34Z
• Authors: Hirotaka Imada; Toshiyuki Himichi; Ryu Takahashi; Nobuhiro Mifune; ATSUSHI TAGO
• Keywords: Dominance (genetics)

Social dominance orientation (SDO), the general attitudes towards group-based inequality and dominance, is a key tenet of social theory, previous studies have found SDO correlated with wide range variables related to intergroup attitudes. In this research, we developed Japanese version short scale (J-SSDO). We collected 632 participants across different regions in Japan investigated factor-structure, internal reliability construct validity J-SSDO. Overall, J-SSDO was low, while it similar that original especially Asian languages. Yet, medium-to-large correlations between theoretically relevant such as aid poor, protecting ethnic/religious minorities, more women leadership positions.