Aggrieved entitlement (AE) refers to the defensiveness and hostility majority-group members feel toward the outgroup in response to a perceived threat of lost privileges. Over the last couple of years, AE has garnered a great deal of attention in the media as well as in the empirical literature because of its connection with extremism and violence against minority groups. Yet, to date, research quantifying and measuring the construct of AE is scant. In this paper, we aim to bridge this gap. Across two studies ( N1 = 813; N2 = 1,100) we explore the factor structure of the Aggrieved Entitlement Scale (AES) and examine its concurrent and divergent validity with related demographic, attitudinal, and personality factors. We found that the AES was positively correlated with racist attitudes, fear-based xenophobia, authoritarianism, sexism, transphobia, and sexual entitlement. We further found that it was negatively correlated with feminist attitudes, honesty-humility, and compassionate love. In both samples, scores were higher among men (vs. women) and heterosexual (vs. sexual minority) individuals. Finally, in contrast to our expectations, racial and ethnic minority participants scored higher in AE than White participants. Results from this work offer initial support for the use of the AES and call for more research into the topic.

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受害权利量表：解决老问题的新措施


受屈权利（AE）是指多数群体成员因感受到失去特权的威胁而对外群体产生的防御和敌意。在过去的几年里，AE 因其与极端主义和针对少数群体的暴力行为的联系而引起了媒体和实证文献的广泛关注。然而，迄今为止，量化和测量 AE 结构的研究还很少。在本文中，我们旨在弥合这一差距。在两项研究中（N1 = 813；N2 = 1,100），我们探索了受屈权利量表（AES）的因素结构，并检查了其与相关人口、态度和人格因素的同时和不同的有效性。我们发现 AES 与种族主义态度、基于恐惧的仇外心理、独裁主义、性别歧视、跨性别恐惧症和性权利呈正相关。我们进一步发现它与女权主义态度、诚实谦逊和富有同情心的爱呈负相关。在这两个样本中，男性（相对于女性）和异性恋（相对于性少数）个体的得分较高。最后，与我们的预期相反，少数种族和族裔参与者的 AE 得分高于白人参与者。这项工作的结果为 AES 的使用提供了初步支持，并呼吁对该主题进行更多研究。