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Belief in Pure Evil Scale (BPE)

 


Assessment name:  Belief in Pure Evil Scale (BPE)

Scale overview: The Belief in Pure Evil scale is a 22-item self-report rating scale indicating perceptions of evil based on the theorizing of Baumeister (1999).

Authors: Webster, Russell J. & Saucier, Donald A

Response Type: Participants rate the items on a 7-point scale of agreement from 1 (disagree very strongly) to 7 (agree very strongly).

Scale items: There are 22 items on the scale. Each item is associated with a component of pure evil. Following is a list of the components of pure evil assessed by the scale.

  General

  Intentional Harm

  Joy of Harm

  Understanding evil

  Low self-control

  Egotism

  Eternal/Disposition

  Antithesis of Peace

Psychometric properties

The authors provided descriptive statistics and evidence for internal consistency along with early evidence for validity based on correlations with measures of related variables.

Availability: The full set of items is available in the PsycTESTS document and the article published by the authors in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

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References for the scale

Baumeister, R. F. (1999). Evil: Inside human violence and cruelty. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Co.

Webster, R. J., & Saucier, D. A. (2013a). Belief in Pure Evil Scale [Database record]. Retrieved from PsycTESTS. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/t34476-000

Webster, R. J., & Saucier, D. A. (2013b). Angels and demons are among us: Assessing individual differences in belief in pure evil and belief in pure good. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39 (11), 1455-1470. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167213496282

Note

The authors reported findings of the scales of pure evil and pure good in five studies. The data provided general support for the constructs developed by Baumeister. In addition, the relationship of the beliefs in pure evil or pure good were linked to other variables such as attitudes toward aggression and prosocial behavior. As the authors note, they are not concerned with hypothetical questions about the existence of pure evil or pure good. Instead, the authors focus on the measurement of such beliefs as they may relate to how people with strong beliefs in either pure evil or pure good behave toward other people.

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