Varieties of Sadistic Tendencies: adaptation and internal structure in Brazil

This study aims to present an adaptation and evidence of construct validity of the Varieties of Sadistic Tendencies for a sample in the Brazilian context.

Method

To this end, 260 participants from different states, with ages ranging from 18 to 64 years (M = 27.91; SD = 8.96), answered three measurement instruments: (a) a version of the Varieties of Sadistic Tendencies, adapted to the Brazilian context through back translation; (b) the Dark Triad Dirty Dozen and; (c) a Demographic Questionnaire.

Results

The answers were submitted to Exploratory Factor Analysis using Factor v10.10.03, which indicated a bifactor structure with 16 items. In addition, Spearman's rho correlations were performed among the factors to identify evidence of validity with other variables, which indicated weak and moderate relationships.

Conclusion

As an initial study, the evidence of validity reported here points to psychometric adequacy.

Keywords:
Machiavellianism; Narcissism; Psychopathy; Reproducibility of results; Sadism

Items	Factors
Items	F1	F2
01. In video games, I like the realistic blood spurts / Nos vídeo games, eu gosto dos jatos de sangue realistas	0.96	-0.13
02. I sometimes replay my favorite scenes from gory slasher films / Eu as vezes dou replay nas minhas cenas favoritas de filmes sangrentos	0.69	0.10
03. I enjoy watching cage fighting (or MMA), where there is no escape / Eu aprecio assistir lutas em jaulas (ou MMA), onde não há escapatória	0.80	-0.27
04. I sometimes look away in horror movies / Eu as vezes desvio o olhar em filmes de horror	-0.74	0.19
05. In car-racing, it’s the accidents that I enjoy most / Em corridas de carros, são os acidentes o que eu mais aprecio	0.47	0.18
06. There’s way too much violence in sports / Há muita violência nos esportes	-0.45	0.17
07. I love the YouTube clips of people fighting / Eu amo os vídeos de YouTube de pessoas lutando	0.78	0.11
08. I enjoy physically hurting people / Eu aprecio machucar pessoas fisicamente	0.09	0.77
09. I would never purposely humiliate someone / Eu nunca humilharia alguém de propósito	0.26	-0.44
10. I was purposely cruel to someone in high school / Eu era cruel de propósito com alguém no ensino médio	0.13	0.51
11. I enjoy hurting my partner during sex (or pretending to) / Eu aprecio machucar meus parceiros durante o sexo (ou pretendo machucá-los)	-0.01	0.70
12. I dominate others using fear / Eu domino os outros usando o medo	-0.01	0.83
13. I enjoy seeing people suffer / Eu aprecio fazer pessoas sofrerem	0.03	0.84
14. I enjoy mocking losers to their face / Eu aprecio zombar de fracassados na cara deles	-0.07	0.97
15. I never said mean things to my parents / Eu nunca disse coisas más para meus pais	0.07	-0.34
16. I enjoy tormenting animals - especially the nasty ones / Eu aprecio atormentar animais - especialmente os nojentos	0.09	0.67
Cronbach’s Alpha	0.72	0.68
Composite Reliability	0.87	0.89
H-Latent	0.92	0.94
% total explained variance	54.73%

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[1] Correspondence to:
G. G. L. ESTEVES. E-mail: germanoesteves@unirv.edu.br.