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| Title |
A New Tool to Measure Malevolent Creativity: The Malevolent Creativity Behavior Scale
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, May 2016
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00682 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Ning Hao, Mengying Tang, Jing Yang, Qifei Wang, Mark A. Runco |
| Abstract |
The present study developed the malevolent creativity behavior scale (MCBS), which contains 13 items and was designed to measure individuals' malevolent creativity through the behavior of daily lives. A total of 958 participants from different regions of China completed the MCBS in an online fashion. Cronbach's α coefficient, using the 908 MCBSs with entirely complete data, indicated that the MCBS had satisfactory reliability. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) revealed that the MCBS had 3 dimensions: hurting people, lying, and playing tricks. MCBS scores were positively correlated with individuals' aggression, openness, extraversion, and scores on the Runco Ideational Behavior Scale (RIBS). MCBS scores also predicted individuals' malevolent creativity performances when solving realistic, open-ended problems. The MCBS has a simple response medium and scoring procedure. This, along with the adequate psychometric properties uncovered here, indicates that it is a useful tool for research on malevolent creativity. Given that the MCBS contains a relatively small number of categories and items, further research could expand the categories of items and develop and test more items. Moreover, it would be useful to test MCBS's reliability and validity with other criteria. Perhaps future research could obtain actual MC data from criminal or other unambiguously malevolent samples. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 2 | 17% |
| United States | 1 | 8% |
| Sweden | 1 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 8% |
| Unknown | 7 | 58% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 6 | 50% |
| Members of the public | 5 | 42% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 8% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 102 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 17 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 14 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 10 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 8% |
| Researcher | 7 | 7% |
| Other | 21 | 20% |
| Unknown | 27 | 26% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 34 | 33% |
| Social Sciences | 13 | 13% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 7 | 7% |
| Computer Science | 3 | 3% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 11 | 11% |
| Unknown | 33 | 32% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 August 2019.
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