The scale uses four, nine-point Likert-type items to measure the degree to which a person views power usage in social relationships to be hierarchic rather than egalitarian.
Five, nine-point statements are used to assess the value placed by a person on an attainment of social status as well as control over other people and resources.
The scale is composed of forced-choice items measuring the degree to which a parent expects unquestioning obedience and respect from his/her children.
Eleven, seven-point Likert-type items are purported to measure the degree to which a person expresses beliefs consistent with a conservative political position and exhibits loyalty to the country. The scale might be described as measuring something more akin to psuedopatriotism, in that several of the items indicate a blind loyalty rather than a love of country based on critical understanding (Levison 1950, p. 107).
