Assessment
name: Redemptive Violence and Belief in
Evil Measure
Scale
overview:
Authors: Maggie Campbell, Johanna Ray Vollhardt
Response
Type: Each item is
rated on a 7-point scale of agreement from strongly disagree (1) to strongly
agree (7).
Scale
items: There are 14
items divided into two scales: Redemptive Violence and Belief in Evil.
The Redemptive
Violence items include statements about the moral justification of force and violence.
The Belief
in Evil scale includes statements about people who may be considered good or
evil.
Psychometric
properties
Cronbach
alpha values: RV = .90, BE = .82
The two
factors presented as two scales were supported by factor analyses—see Table 1.
Both RV and
BE were positively correlated with beliefs about the death penalty, nuclear
weapons, Guantanamo Bay as well as religion and conservatism.
Availability: The full text of the two scales are
included in the PsycTESTS reference below.
A related resource
Assessing Spirituality & Religiosity A Handbook
Beliefs, Practices, Values, & Experiences
References
for the scale
Campbell, M., & Vollhardt, J. R. (2014). Redemptive
Violence and Belief in Evil Measure [Database record]. Retrieved from
PsycTESTS. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/t29947-000
Campbell, M. & Vollhardt, J. R. (2014). Fighting the
good fight: The relationship between belief in evil and support for violent
policies. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol 40(1), 16-33. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/014616721350099
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