sdo_cat {catSurv}

Social Dominance Orientation Cat Object

Description

Cat object containing item parameters for graded response model fit with responses to the 15 item Social Dominance Orientation inventory

Usage

data(sdo_cat)

Format

An object of class Cat of length 1.

Details

Cat object containing item parameters for graded response model fit with 2042 response profiles from Lucid, 1192 response profiles from MTurk, and 1482 response profiles collected by YouGov in June 2018. The sample from MTurk was a convenience sample The respondents from YouGov were matched to a sampling frame on gender, age, race, and education.

See Cat-class for details regarding the Cat object structure. See grmCat for details regarding the graded response model.

A normal prior was chosen with mean from the theta estimates from the YouGov sample (.19) and a standard deviation (1) wide enough to envelope the range of estimated theta values across both samples.

Note that due to how the item parameters were estimated, large, positive values indicate "more" of the latent trait.

Response options are:

5 = Strongly agree, 4 = Somewhat agree, 3 = Neither agree nor disagree, 2 = Somewhat disagree, 1 = Strongly disagree

The wording of the question items is:

q1

Some groups of people are simply inferior to other groups.

q2

In getting what you want, it is sometimes necessary to use force against other groups.

q3

It's OK if some groups have more of a chance in life than others.

q4

To get ahead in life, it is sometimes necessary to step on other groups.

q5

If certain groups stayed in their place, we would have fewer problems.

q6

It's probably a good thing that certain groups are at the top and other groups are at the bottom.

q7

Inferior groups should stay in their place.

q8

Sometimes other groups must be kept in their place.

q9

It would be good if groups could be equal.

q10

Group equality should be our ideal.

q11

All groups should be given an equal chance in life.

q12

We should do what we can to equalize conditions for different groups.

q13

Increased social equality is beneficial to society.

q14

We would have fewer problems if we treated people more equally.

q15

We should strive to make incomes as equal as possible.

q16

No group should dominate in society.

Source

See https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/pdsl for the raw YouGov and/or Qualtrics data.

References

Pratto, F., J. Sidanius, L. M. Stallworth, and B. F. Malle (1994), "Social Dominance Orientation: A Personality Variable Predicting Social and Political Attitudes," Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67, 741.

See Also

Cat-class, grmCat