Scale name: Vengeance Scale
Scale overview:
The
Vengeance Scale is a 20-item self-report inventory with 10 items reversed
scored.
Authors:
Noreen Stuckless
& Richard Goranson
Response
Type: 7-point Likert
type.
1 = Disagree strongly
2 = Disagree
3 = disagree slightly
4 = Neither disagree or agree
5 = Agree slightly
6 = Agree
7 = Agree strongly
Subscales: None
Sample
items
It’s not
worth my time or effort to pay back someone who has wronged me. (Reverse score)
It’s
important for me to get back at people who have hurt me.
Psychometric
properties: Study
1: The scale mean for the 20 items was 67.28. Men (71.84) scored significantly
higher than did women (65.29).
Reliability: Study 1 and Study 2 alphas = .92.
In study 3, a test-retest correlation = .90.
Validity: The structure was examined by
Factor Analysis. The researchers concluded that a single factor was the best
fit.
In study 2,
Vengeance scores were negatively correlated with empathy and positively
correlated with trait anger
Availability: See pages 41-42 of the article for
the 20 items.
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Reference
Stuckless,
N. & Goranson, R. (1992). The vengeance scale: Development of a measure of attitudes
toward revenge, Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 7, 25-42.
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