Authoritarianism-Rebellion Scale

Authoritarianism-Rebellion Scale (Kohn‚ 1972)
 

Circle the number that best reflects your degree of agreement or disagreement with each statement.

 

1.       Obedience and respect for authority are the most important virtues children should learn.

 Disagree          Disagree        Disagree            Agree            Agree                Agree

Strongly         Somewhat        Slightly            Slightly       Somewhat         Strongly

               1                      2                      3                      4                      5                      6
 

2.*     What we need least is an authority to tell us what to do or how to do it.

 Disagree          Disagree        Disagree            Agree            Agree                Agree

Strongly         Somewhat        Slightly            Slightly       Somewhat         Strongly

               1                      2                      3                      4                      5                      6
 

3.       Every person should have complete faith in some supernatural power whose decisions he obeys without question.

 Disagree          Disagree        Disagree            Agree            Agree                Agree

Strongly         Somewhat        Slightly            Slightly       Somewhat         Strongly

               1                      2                      3                      4                      5                      6
 

4.       People can be divided into two distinct classes‚ the weak and the strong.

 Disagree          Disagree        Disagree            Agree            Agree                Agree

Strongly         Somewhat        Slightly            Slightly       Somewhat         Strongly

               1                      2                      3                      4                      5                      6
 

5.*     To be a decent human being‚ follow your conscience regardless of the law.

 Disagree          Disagree        Disagree            Agree            Agree                Agree

Strongly         Somewhat        Slightly            Slightly       Somewhat         Strongly

               1                      2                      3                      4                      5                      6
 

6.*     No principle is more immoral than that of obedience.

 Disagree          Disagree        Disagree            Agree            Agree                Agree

Strongly         Somewhat        Slightly            Slightly       Somewhat         Strongly

               1                      2                      3                      4                      5                      6
 
 7.       Familiarity breeds contempt.
 Disagree          Disagree        Disagree            Agree            Agree                Agree

Strongly         Somewhat        Slightly            Slightly       Somewhat         Strongly

               1                      2                      3                      4                      5                      6
 

8.*     Astrology will never explain anything because it is a fraud.

 Disagree          Disagree        Disagree            Agree            Agree                Agree

Strongly         Somewhat        Slightly            Slightly       Somewhat         Strongly

               1                      2                      3                      4                      5                      6
 

9.*     The Canadian way of life is so resistant to progress that a revolution is necessary to end its injustices and oppressions.

 Disagree          Disagree        Disagree            Agree            Agree                Agree

Strongly         Somewhat        Slightly            Slightly       Somewhat         Strongly

               1                      2                      3                      4                      5                      6
 

10.     Nowadays‚ when so many different kinds of people move around and mix together so much‚ a person has to protect himself against catching an infection or disease from them.

 Disagree          Disagree        Disagree            Agree            Agree                Agree

Strongly         Somewhat        Slightly            Slightly       Somewhat         Strongly

               1                      2                      3                      4                      5                      6
 

11.*   Children don=t owe their parents a thing.

 Disagree          Disagree        Disagree            Agree            Agree                Agree

Strongly         Somewhat        Slightly            Slightly       Somewhat         Strongly

               1                      2                      3                      4                      5                      6
 

12.*   Canada can=t exert moral leadership among nations until it abandons its corrupt material nature.

 Disagree          Disagree        Disagree            Agree            Agree                Agree

Strongly         Somewhat        Slightly            Slightly       Somewhat         Strongly

               1                      2                      3                      4                      5                      6
 

13.*   Sex crimes like rape and child molesting reflect a sick society and we must change society rather than punish individual offenders.

 Disagree          Disagree        Disagree            Agree            Agree                Agree

Strongly         Somewhat        Slightly            Slightly       Somewhat         Strongly

               1                      2                      3                      4                      5                      6
 

14.     Obedience is the mother of success.

 Disagree          Disagree        Disagree            Agree            Agree                Agree
Strongly         Somewhat        Slightly            Slightly       Somewhat         Strongly
               1                      2                      3                      4                      5                      6
 

15.     Strong discipline builds moral ch‎aracter.

 Disagree          Disagree        Disagree            Agree            Agree                Agree

Strongly         Somewhat        Slightly            Slightly       Somewhat         Strongly

               1                      2                      3                      4                      5                      6
 

16.     Canada is spiritually predestined to lead the world.

 
Disagree          Disagree        Disagree            Agree            Agree                Agree

Strongly         Somewhat        Slightly            Slightly       Somewhat         Strongly

               1                      2                      3                      4                      5                      6
 

17.     Some day it will probably be shown that astrology can explain a lot of things.

 
Disagree          Disagree        Disagree            Agree            Agree                Agree

Strongly         Somewhat        Slightly            Slightly       Somewhat         Strongly

               1                      2                      3                      4                      5                      6
 

18.*   Peoples of different nationalities‚ social classes and races should mix together more. Everybody would benefit from it.

 
Disagree          Disagree        Disagree            Agree            Agree                Agree

Strongly         Somewhat        Slightly            Slightly       Somewhat         Strongly

               1                      2                      3                      4                      5                      6
 

19.*   To know people well is to love them.

 
Disagree          Disagree        Disagree            Agree            Agree                Agree

Strongly         Somewhat        Slightly            Slightly       Somewhat         Strongly

               1                      2                      3                      4                      5                      6
 

20.     The true Canadian way of life is disappearing so fast that force may be necessary to preserve it.

 
Disagree          Disagree        Disagree            Agree            Agree                Agree

Strongly         Somewhat        Slightly            Slightly       Somewhat         Strongly

               1                      2                      3                      4                      5                      6
 
 
 

21.     Sex crimes‚ such as rape and attacks on children‚ deserve more than mere punishment: Such criminals ought to be publicly whipped or worse.

 
Disagree          Disagree        Disagree            Agree            Agree                Agree

Strongly         Somewhat        Slightly            Slightly       Somewhat         Strongly

               1                      2                      3                      4                      5                      6
 

22.*   Obedience is the mother of enslavement.

 
Disagree          Disagree        Disagree            Agree            Agree                Agree

Strongly         Somewhat        Slightly            Slightly       Somewhat         Strongly

               1                      2                      3                      4                      5                      6
 

23.*   True morality only develops in a fully permissive environment.

 
Disagree          Disagree        Disagree            Agree            Agree                Agree

Strongly         Somewhat        Slightly            Slightly       Somewhat         Strongly

               1                      2                      3                      4                      5                      6
 

24.     There is hardly anything lower than a person who does not feel a great deal of love‚ gratitude‚ and respect for his parents.

 
Disagree          Disagree        Disagree            Agree            Agree                Agree

Strongly         Somewhat        Slightly            Slightly       Somewhat         Strongly

               1                      2                      3                      4                      5                      6
 

25.     No principle is more noble or holy than that of true obedience.

 
Disagree          Disagree        Disagree            Agree            Agree                Agree

Strongly         Somewhat        Slightly            Slightly       Somewhat         Strongly

               1                      2                      3                      4                      5                      6
 

26.*   The strong and the weak are not inherently different. They are merely the advantaged and the disadvantaged members of an unfair society.

 
Disagree          Disagree        Disagree            Agree            Agree                Agree

Strongly         Somewhat        Slightly            Slightly       Somewhat         Strongly

               1                      2                      3                      4                      5                      6
 

27.*   Obedience and respect for authority aren=t virtues and shouldn=t be taught to children.

 
Disagree          Disagree        Disagree            Agree            Agree                Agree

Strongly         Somewhat        Slightly            Slightly       Somewhat         Strongly

               1                      2                      3                      4                      5                      6
 
 

28.     To be a decent person‚ always stay within the law.

 
Disagree          Disagree        Disagree            Agree            Agree                Agree

Strongly         Somewhat        Slightly            Slightly       Somewhat         Strongly

               1                      2                      3                      4                      5                      6
 

29.     Our chief want in life is somebody to make us do what we should.

 
Disagree          Disagree        Disagree            Agree            Agree                Agree

Strongly         Somewhat        Slightly            Slightly       Somewhat         Strongly

               1                      2                      3                      4                      5                      6
 

30.*   Faith in the supernatural is a harmful self-delusion‚ and submission to religious authority is dangerous.

 
Disagree          Disagree        Disagree            Agree            Agree                Agree

Strongly         Somewhat        Slightly            Slightly       Somewhat         Strongly

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Note: Items marked with an asterisk are reverse-scored items.

 
 
References
 

Kohn‚ P.M. (1972). The Authoritarianism-Rebellion scale: A balanced F Scale with left-wing reversals. Sociometry‚ 35‚ 176-189.

 

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