This is a 28-item (very) shortened version of the SDI-B found in the Appendix of:

Saucier,G. (2000). Isms and the structure of social attitudes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78(2), 366-385.

All coefficients involve N=803 (combined samples from Saucier, 2000)

Alphaisms...coefficient alpha .75

Legalism-1y I adhere strictly and literally to a code of religion and morality.

Institutionalism-1y I adhere to an organized religion.

Calvinism God is all-powerful, and those whom God chooses will be saved by God's grace alone.

Secularism-2 Religious considerations should be excluded from civil affairs and public education.

Liberalism-4az I put little emphasis on religious dogma.

Evolutionism-2 I believe in biological evolution.

(note: last three items are reverse-scored)

Betaisms...coefficient alpha .70

Sensualism-2 The pleasures of the senses are the highest good.

Materialism-2 Physical well-being and worldly possessions are the greatest good and highest value in life.

Materialism-1y Everything -- including thought, feeling, mind, and will -- can be explained in terms of matter and physical phenomena.

Fascism-1bz The government ought to suppress and censor the opposition.

Solipsism-2 The self is the only reality.

Ethnocentrism-1 I believe in the superiority of my own ethnic group.

Gammaisms...coefficient alpha .66

Patriotism I love and am devoted to my country.

Constitutionalism-2b I am in favor of a constitutional form of government

Existentialism-y The individual is a self-determining agent responsible for how authentic and genuine his or her choices are.

Humanism-4 I emphasize reason, scientific inquiry, and human fulfillment in the natural world.

Functionalism-2 I stress purpose, practicality, and usefulness.

Logical Positivism-x Observable data are necessary to find out whether factual statements are true.

Neoliberalism We ought to emphasize economic growth but also be concerned with social justice.

Fundamentalism-2 I adhere firmly to fundamental and basic principles.

Deltaisms...coefficient alpha .65

Hinduism-x I believe in a supreme being of many forms and natures.

Bergsonism-y All living things arise from a persisting natural force, a vital living spirit or glow.

Transcendentalism-2 There is an ideal spiritual reality that goes beyond sense experience and science and is knowable through intuition.

Zen Buddhism Enlightenment can be gained through meditation, self-contemplation, and intuition.

Animism-1 Natural objects and even nature itself have conscious life.

Anthropomorphism Many nonhuman things have human motivation and human characteristics.

Jainism-y I emphasize the liberation of the soul through self-discipline and nonviolence toward all living creatures.

Spiritualism-1a The dead communicate with the living through mediums.

SDI STATISTICS

Rotated Factor Matrix

Factor

1 2 3 4

ZZLEGA1Y .72 . 11 . 15 -.10

ZZINST1Y .64 .00 .07 .02

SECULAR2 -.55 .16 .03 .03

ZZLIB4AZ -.54 .05 .05 .08

EVOLUTI2 -.52 .09 .22 .18

CALVIN .51 .18 -.01 .07

MATERIA2 -.13 .59 .01 .08

SENSUAL2 -.02 . 58 .00 .20

ZZMATE1Y .01 .52 .05 -.05

ETHNOCE1 .10 .50 -.11 -.01

ZZFAS1BZ .23 .49 -.19 .02

SOLIPS2 -.13 48 -.05 .15

PATRIOT .17 .02 .51 -.01

CONSTI2B .03 -.19 .51 -.09

HUMAN4 -.22 .08 .48 .20

ZZEXIS_Y -.08 -.10 .48 .14

NEOLIBER -.02 -.21 .47 .11

FUNCTIO2 .00 -.05 .44 -.06

ZZLOGP_X -.08 .10 .36 .10

FUNDAME2 .27 .06 .35 -.06

ZZHIND_X -02 .07 .00 .50

ZZBERG_Y .11 -.03 .06 .50

TRANSCE2 .18 -.18 .12 .45

ZZJAIN_Y -.08 .02 .20 .45

ZENBUDDH -.14 .01 .14 .44

ANIM1 -.07 .15 .02 .41

SPIRIT1A -.12 .18 -.14 .39

ANTHROMO -.11 .11 -.12 .37

Extraction Method: Principal Axis Factoring.

Rotation Method: Varimax with Kaiser Normalization.

a Rotation converged in 5 iterations.

In this and also quartimax, equamax, promax (kappa=4), and oblimin (delta=0) all of the items load most highly on the intended factor. Thus, this solution is essentially robust across rotation methods, at least in the derivation sample.

Descriptive Statistics (average response, 1 to 5 rating scale)

N Mean Std. Deviation

Alpha 803 3.3472 .91263

Beta 803 2.3068 .74036

Gamma 803 3.7228 .53999

Delta 803 3.1177 .64000

Valid N (listwise) 803