Оценка на директни и индиректни форми на „всекидневен“ садизъм в юношеска възраст: три- или четирифакторен модел?
Assesment of direct and indirect forms of “everyday” sadism in adolescence: a three- or a four-factor model?

Summary/Abstract: Sadistic tendencies are defined as a combination of behavioral, cognitive, and personality characteristics, related to dispositional proneness to inflict physical and emotional pain to others, with the aim to control/subjugate or humiliate them. Aim of present study is to present the process of Bulgarian adaptation of one contemporary elaborated self-descriptive instrument: Comprehensive Assessment of Sadistic Tendencies (CAST). The original structure of CAST distinguishes direct physical and verbal forms of sadistic tendencies (tendency to derive pleasure in pain inflicting actions), and indirect/vicarious forms (pleasure seeking in watching such actions undertaken by others). Two hypotheses, referring to factor structure and construct validity of CAST in adolescent non-clinical sample are tested: (a) two forms of indirect sadism - watching a real hearting behaviors, and watching a fictional violence (i.e. films and video games) should be empirically confirmed, after inclusion of additional items to the scale; (b) the tendency to watch real violence is expected to show stronger correlations with direct forms of sadism (with both CAST and other independent measure of sadism). Factor structure of CAST is assessed with exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, on two independent samples. For assessment of second hypothesis correlations with direct forms of sadistic tendencies (CAST) and Bulgarian adaptation of Assessment of Sadistic Personality (ASP) are analyzed. Results supported the anticipated four factor structure of CAST with two indirect forms of sadism and hypotheses risen.

• Details
• Contents