The purpose of this study was to develop a scale of abusive supervision
in Indonesia. The study was conducted with a different context and scale
development method from Tepper's (2000) abusive supervision scale. The
abusive supervision scale from Tepper (2000) was developed in the U.S.,
which has a cultural orientation of low power distance. The current
study was conducted in Indonesia, which has a high power distance. This
study used interview procedures to obtain information about supervisor's
abusive behavior, and it was also assessed by experts. The results of
this study indicated that abusive supervision was a 3-dimensional
construct. There were anger-active abuse (6 items), humiliation-active
abuse (4 items), and passive abuse (15 items). These scales have
internal reliabilities of 0.947, 0.922, and 0.845, in sequence.
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