Social Dominance Orientation Scale Test

For readers examining how they view equality, group status, and power, this questionnaire offers a way to organize those attitudes. The Social Dominance Orientation Scale Test can help someone reflect on whether responses favor equal treatment or hierarchical relations. As a social dominance orientation test, it is intended for personal exploration of intergroup beliefs. The result is a profile of response tendencies rather than a fixed identity.

What This Assessment Explores

The items focus on beliefs about group superiority, unequal opportunities, social ranking, and equal treatment. Some statements endorse hierarchy or dominance, while others support equal conditions and reject group control. This makes the questionnaire useful for anyone exploring group hierarchy attitudes.

The displayed dimensions show how the result separates these themes:

• Anti-Egalitarianism (1-7) measures opposition to equality; Egalitarian 1-2, Mixed/Moderate 2.1-4.4, and Anti-egalitarian 4.5-7 show lower, middle, and higher results.
• Social Dominance Orientation (1-7) measures support for group hierarchy; Egalitarian 1-2.3, Mixed/Neutral 2.4-4.4, and Hierarchy-supporting 4.5-7 indicate the direction of that attitude.
• Dominance (1-7) measures approval of group-based superiority; Low dominance endorsement 1-2.3, Moderate dominance endorsement 2.4-4.8, and High dominance endorsement 4.9-7 mark increasing endorsement.

Taken together, the profile distinguishes preference for equality from acceptance of hierarchy and direct group dominance.

Methodology and Scientific Basis

Each item uses a seven-point agreement response, from strongly disagree to strongly agree, with a middle option for uncertainty or neutrality. Because statements support different positions, agreement can indicate hierarchy endorsement in one item and equality endorsement in another. The result is therefore read from the content of the response pattern, not from agreement alone.

Scoring summarizes the answers across three related dimensions and assigns the displayed descriptive bands. The questionnaire does not document an item-level weighting rule, so no additional point system should be inferred. This social dominance scale is best treated as a structured profile of intergroup attitudes rather than one global verdict.

The questionnaire is conceptually consistent with Social Dominance Orientation Scale (Gulevich et al., 2018), while Pratto et al. (1994) provide the original scale framework and Sidanius and Pratto (1999) place it within social dominance theory. It is not automatically the published instrument or a reproduction of its validation procedure. Self-report may reflect social desirability, current experiences, and limited self-awareness; the profile has no universal norms or clinical cutoffs.