The Dispositional Contempt Scale (DCS) developed
by Schriber et al. (2017) included 10-items measuring contempt on a 5-point rating
scale.
Instructions
The authors provided the following instructions on the
downloaded form.
Below are a series of statements that may or may
not relate to you. Please read each statement carefully, considering each one
by one, and indicate the extent to which each describes you by using the
response options. There are no right or wrong answers. Please answer honestly,
as we are interested in how you actually think, feel, and behave.
Items
1. I tend to disregard people who fall short of
my standards.
2. I often lose respect for others.
3. Feeling disdain for others comes naturally to
me.
4. I tend to accept people regardless of their
flaws.
5. I would never try to make someone feel
worthless.
6. I often feel like others are wasting my time.
7. I hardly ever think others are inferior to
me.
8. All in all, I am repelled by others' faults.
9. Others tend to give me reasons to look down
on them.
10. I often feel contempt for others.
Read more at The
Psychology of Contempt
Scoring
The authors state that the scale scores is the total
score for the ten items. Items 4,5, and 7 are reverse scored.
Interpretation
The higher the score, the higher the level of contempt
as a disposition or personality trait.
Statistics
After developing the scale, their third sample revealed
an average item mean of 2.48, SD of .88 and alpha of .89. The DSC was significantly
correlated with shame (Other as Shamer Scale, Goss et al., 1994) r =
.85. Additional studies revealed DCS means in the range of 2.34 to 2.41 with SDs
ranged from .70 to .92. The alpha values ranged from .88 to .90.
The authors compared the DCS to other measures and
found significant relationships with aggression, hubristic price and
dispositional envy. As you might expect, high DCS scores were significantly
inversely related with the Big % trait of agreeableness. See Shriber et al. (2017)
for details.
Availability
I downloaded the scale from Tilburg University.
Resource Link: A – Z Test Index
References
Goss, K., Gilbert, P., & Allan, S. (1994). An exploration of shame
measures–
1: The Other as Shamer scale. Personality and Individual Differences,
17, 713–717. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0191-8869(94)90149-X
Schriber, R. A., Chung, J. M., Sorensen, K. S., & Robins, R. W.
(2017). Dispositional
contempt: A first look at the contemptuous person. Journal of
Personality and Social
Psychology, 113, 280-309.
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