Appendix A: The Social Decentering Scale
The Social Decentering Scale is a 36-item multidimensional scale where each item includes three dimensions: input, process, and output. Summing specific groups of items produces measures of the seven components that make up the social decentering theory. Respondents are presented with the 36 items and asked to rate each item in terms of how well that item describes their own thoughts and behaviors on a five-point Likert scale.
Researchers interested in assessing just the cognitive dimension of social decentering (perspective-taking) can use just the 18 items constituting the cognitive subscale listed at the end of this section.
Researchers interested in assessing just the affective dimension of social ...
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