APS

30th APS Annual Convention · 2018

Principal Components Analysis of the Short Sadistic Impulse Scale

San Francisco, CA · May 2018

Poster · Personality/Emotion

  • Mary Jobe
    Christopher Newport University
  • Sherman Lee
    Christopher Newport University
  • Amanda Mathis
    Christopher Newport University
  • Haley Wofford
    Christopher Newport University
  • Zachary Wilson
    Christopher Newport University
  • Audrey Camarillo
    Christopher Newport University

Abstract

This study presents a four-item long measure of sadism derived from a principal components analysis of the Short Sadistic Impulse Scale (SSIS; O’Meara, Davies, & Hammond, 2011). The results also unexpectedly identified a second component underlying the SSIS.

Personality

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