2014
DOI: 10.1037/a0036855
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The psychology of martyrdom: Making the ultimate sacrifice in the name of a cause.

Abstract: Martyrdom is defined as the psychological readiness to suffer and sacrifice one's life for a cause. An integrative set of 8 studies investigated the concept of martyrdom by creating a new tool to quantitatively assess individuals' propensity toward self-sacrifice. Studies 1A-1C consisted of psychometric work attesting to the scale's unidimensionality, internal consistency, and temporal stability while examining its nomological network. Studies 2A-2B focused on the scale's predictive validity, especially as it … Show more

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“…Readiness to self‐sacrifice for the party's ideals was measured with a 10‐item scale developed by Bélanger, Caouette, Sharvit, and Dugas (), which was translated into Polish. A sample item was “I would be prepared to endure intense suffering if it meant defending those ideals” ( α = .86).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Readiness to self‐sacrifice for the party's ideals was measured with a 10‐item scale developed by Bélanger, Caouette, Sharvit, and Dugas (), which was translated into Polish. A sample item was “I would be prepared to endure intense suffering if it meant defending those ideals” ( α = .86).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…If they chose to donate, using a slider scale, participants indicated how much they wanted to give. This paradigm has been used in prior research (Bélanger, Caouette, Sharvit, & Dugas, 2014).…”
Section: Procedures and Toolsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Instruments to be used operationally by professionals included the VERA-2 with two distinct studies [14, 15], ERG 22+ [16], ERS [16] and IVPG with two distinct studies [17]. The tools developed as research measures of particular constructs were the 1992-RWA [6], RF-R [18], PHS [19], MMPI-2 [19], RWA-R [20], ITFS [21], ARIS [22], NBMASA [23], MEMS [24], MDFI [25], RF-I [26], SyfoR [27], IFS [28], SSS [29], ARIS-S [30], TCS [31], TRAP-18 [32] and a tool created by Schbley [33]. Finally, inventories not generated from a study comprised tools developed by Ross [34], Vaisman-Tzachor [35], Horgan [36], Saucier et al [37], Kebbell and Porter [38], Monahan [39], USAID [40], Borum [41] and the EMI-20 [42].…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%