Social dominance orientation reduces to a single Tough-mindedness trait

Evidence

In contrast, studies have found SDO to be associated with low scores on personality measures of empathy, and high scores on Eysenck’s psychoticism scale (Altemeyer, 1998; McFarland, 1998; McFarland & Adelson, 1996), which is indicative of being tough-minded, unempathic, cold, and hostile (Eysenck & Eysenck, 1975). Heaven and Bucci (2001) similarly found that SDO was correlated with low scores on personality measures of sympathy, cooperation, agreeableness, and morality. Duckitt (2001) developed a Tough versus Tender-mindedness trait rating scale to captured this trait pattern, consisting of items such as tough-minded, hard-hearted, uncaring, versus sympathetic, compassionate, forgiving. The Tough-mindedness scale is highly reliable, unidimensional, and correlates strongly with SDO but not with RWA. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2472

In contrast, studies have found SDO to be associated with low scores on personality measures of empathy, and high scores on Eysenck’s psychoticism scale (Altemeyer, 1998; McFarland, 1998; McFarland & Adelson, 1996), which is indicative of being tough-minded, unempathic, cold, and hostile (Eysenck & Eysenck, 1975). Heaven and Bucci (2001) similarly found that SDO was correlated with low scores on personality measures of sympathy, cooperation, agreeableness, and morality. Duckitt (2001) developed a Tough versus Tender-mindedness trait rating scale to captured this trait pattern, consisting of items such as tough-minded, hard-hearted, uncaring, versus sympathetic, compassionate, forgiving. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2472

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the Tough-mindedness scale as the distilled trait underlying SDO, mirroring Social Conformity for RWA.
• XREF: Symmetrical with the Social Conformity scale for RWA — a clean two-factor personality model of prejudice.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 2472; , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2472