The F Scale items derive from fascist writings and clinical interview data

Evidence

The thirty-eight items of the initial form of the F Scale are a greatly varied lot. In part they were suggested by fascist writings and by the speeches of anti-Semitic agitators. In part they were suggested by persistent themes in the interview protocols of ethnocentric subjects and in their TAT stories. For these data, which we have not yet described, had been collected and studied before the F Scale was written. Indeed the F Scale represents an effort to capture in a questionnaire the insights of the clinical studies. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 469

Categorization

• SEED: The systematic pathway from clinical interview data to questionnaire items is a great model for methodology-focused writing on instrument construction in psychology.
• XREF: connects to: Adorno designed the F-scale to detect anti-Semites without mentioning Jews — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1573; Adorno drafted up to a hundred questionnaire items by translating texts into F-scale questions — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1577; Adorno considered the F-scale his main contribution to the study — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1761