Psychology
Scales and Questionnaires
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ADDICTION SCALE (Gossop & Eysenck)
British
journal of addiction, 1980, 75, pp. 305-311
ADJECTIVE CHECK LIST (Robinson & Shaver)
Measures
of social psychological attitudes. [Ann Arbor, Mich.]:
Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, 1969.
AGGRESSION QUESTIONNAIRE (Buss & Perry)
Journal of personality and social psychology, 1992, 63, pp. 452-459
APPEARANCE SCHEMAS INVENTORY (Cash & Labarge)
Cognitive
therapy and research, 1996, 20, pp. 37-50
ATTACHMENT Q-SET (Waters)
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1995, Nos. 2-3, 60, 234-246.
BARRATT IMPULSIVENESS SCALE (Revised)
Journal
of Clinical Psychology, 1995, 51, 768-774
Schutte, N.S. & Malouff, J.M., Sourcebook
of adult assessment strategies. New York: Plenum, 1995,
p.361-364
Schutte, N.S. & Malouff, Measuring
emotional intelligence and related constructs. Lewiston,
N.Y.; Lampeter: Edwin Mellen, 1999, p.147-157
BECK ANXIETY INVENTORY
Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 1988, 56, pp. 893-897
BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY
Archives of general psychiatry, 1961, 4, pp. 561-571
Thompson, S.B.N.
Eating
disorders: a guide for health professionals. London: Chapman Hall, 1993,
pp. 28-29
BECK HOPELESSNESS SCALE
Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 1974, 42, pp. 861-865
BEM SEX-ROLE INVENTORY
Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 1974, 42, pp. 155-162
Robinson, J.P. et al. Measures
of personality & social psychological attitudes. San
Diego; London: Academic Press, 1991. pp. 588-597
BEN-TOVIM WALKER BODY ATTITUDES QUESTIONNAIRE
Psychological medicine, 1991, 21, pp. 775-784
BINGE EATING SCALE (Gormally et al)
Schutte, N.S. & Malouff, J.M. Sourcebook
of adult assessment strategies. New York: Plenum Press,
1995, pp. 321-326
BODY ESTEEM SCALE (Franzoi & Shields, 1984)
http://www.marquette.edu/psyc/body_esteem_scale.htm
BODY IMAGE AVOIDANCE QUESTIONNAIRE (Rosen et al)
Thompson, J.K. et al Exacting
beauty: theory, assessment, and treatment of body image disturbance.
Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 1999,
p. 269, 258
Corcoran, K. & Fischer, J. Measures for clinical practice: A sourcebook. 3rd Ed. Mew York: Free Press, 2000, Vol. 2, pp. 120-124
BODY SHAPE QUESTIONNAIRE (Cooper et al)
International
journal of eating disorders, 1987, 6, pp. 485-494
Schutte, N.S. & Malouff, J.M. Sourcebook
of adult assessment strategies. New York: Plenum Press,
1995, pp. 327-330
BRIEF PAIN INVENTORY
Pain Research Group, Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin-Madison..
(PDF document)
BRIEF PSYCHIATRIC RATING SCALE (Overall)
(1983 version) Schutte, N.S. & Malouff, J.M. Sourcebook
of adult assessment strategies. New York: Plenum Press,
1995, pp. 453-460
(1962 version) Psychological reports, 1962, 10, pp. 799-812
CARROLL RATING SCALE FOR DEPRESSION
British journal of psychiatry, 1981, 138, pp. 194-200
Beckham, E.E. & Leber, W.R. (eds.). Handbook
of depression: treatment, assessment and research. Homewood, Ill.: Dorsey,
1985, pp. 996-997
CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES - DEPRESSION INVENTORY
Schutte, N.S. & Malouff, J.M. Sourcebook
of adult assessment strategies. New York: Plenum Press,
1995, pp. 117-122
Robinson, J.P. et al. Measures
of personality & social psychological attitudes. San
Diego; London: Academic Press, 1991, pp. 212-215
CHILDREN'S BEHAVIOR QUESTIONNAIRE (Rutter)
Journal
of child psychology and psychiatry, 1967, 8, pp. 1-11
CHILDREN'S EATING ATTITUDES TEST (Garner)
Journal of the American academy of child and adolescent psychiatry, 1988, 27, pp. 541-543.
Allison, D. Handbook
of assessment methods for eating behaviors and weight and
related problems. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1995, pp.
488-489
CHILDREN'S EATING BEHAVIOR INVENTORY - Revised (Archer, 1991)
Allison, D. Handbook
of assessment methods for eating behaviors and weight and
related problems. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1995, pp.486-487
CHILDREN'S SEX ROLE INVENTORY (Boldizar)
Developmental psychology, 1991, 27, pp. 505-515
COMPLIANCE QUESTIONNAIRE (Gudjonsson)
Personality
and individual differences, 1989, 10, pp. 535-540
COMPUTER ANXIETY RATING SCALE
Department of
Communication, University of Southern Maine (PDF document)
CONSERVATISM SCALE (Wilson & Patterson)
British
journal of social and clinical psychology, 1968, 7, pp.
264-269
(Short form) British journal of social and clinical psychology, 1978, 17, pp. 319-323
CONTOUR DRAWING RATING SCALE (Thompson and Gray)
Journal of personality assessment, 1995, 64, pp. 258-269
Thompson, J.K. et al. Exacting
beauty: theory, assessment, and treatment of body image disturbance.
Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 1999,
p. 7
Allison, D. Handbook
of assessment methods for eating behaviors and weight and
related problems. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1995, p.
145
COOPERSMITH SELF ESTEEM INVENTORY
Robinson, J.P. et al. Measures
of personality & social psychological attitudes. San
Diego; London: Academic Press, 1991, pp. 127-131
C.O.P.E. (Carver, Scheier & Weintraub)
Department
of Psychology, University of Miami
Journal of personality and social psychology, 1989, 56, pp. 267-83
DEATH ANXIETY SCALE (Templer)
Journal
of general psychology, 1970, 82, pp. 165-177
Schutte, N.S. & Malouff, J.M. Sourcebook
of adult assessment strategies. New York: Plenum Press,
1995, pp. 174-176
DEATH ATTITUDE PROFILE - REVISED
Neimeyer, R.A. Death
anxiety handbook: research, instrumentation, and application.
Washington, DC: Taylor & Francis, 1994, pp. 146-148
DEPRESSION ADJECTIVE CHECKLIST (Lubin)
Archives
of general psychiatry, 1965, 12, pp. 57-62
Robinson, J.P. et al. Measures
of personality & social psychological attitudes. San
Diego; London: Academic Press, 1991, pp. 215-219
DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS INTERVIEW SCHEDULE [DSM-IV version]
(Ross)
The Colin A.
Ross Institute for Psychological Trauma
DISSOCIATIVE EXPERIENCES SCALE (Bernstein & Putnam)
Journal
of nervous and mental disease, 1986, 174, pp. 727-735
Schutte, N.S. & Malouff, J.M. Sourcebook
of adult assessment strategies. New York: Plenum Press,
1995, pp. 273-280
DYADIC ADJUSTMENT SCALE
Journal
of marriage and the family, 1976, 38, pp. 27-28
EATING ATTITUDES TEST (Garner & Garfinkel)
Psychological
medicine, 1979, 9, pp. 273-279
Schutte, N.S. & Malouff, J.M. Sourcebook
of adult assessment strategies. New York: Plenum Press,
1995, pp. 311-313
Thompson, S.B.N. Eating
disorders: a guide for health professionals. London: Chapman
Hall, 1993, pp. 22-23
(Short version) Psychological
medicine, 1982, 12, pp. 871-878
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE SCALE (Schutte et al)
Personality
and individual differences, 1998, 25, pp167-177
EXPAGG (Archer)
British
journal of social psychology, 1997, 36, pp. 83-105
EYSENCK PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE - REVISED
Personality
and individual differences, 1985, 6, pp. 27-29
(Abbreviated version)
Personality
and individual differences, 1992, 13, pp. 443-449.
FEAR OF SUCCESS SCALE (Zuckerman
& Allison)
Journal
of personality assessment, 1976, 40, pp. 422-430
FEAR QUESTIONNAIRE (Marks & Matthews)
Behaviour
research and therapy, 1979, 17, pp. 263-267
Schutte, N.S. & Malouff, J.M. Sourcebook
of adult assessment strategies. New York: Plenum Press,
1995, pp. 172-173
FEAR SURVEY SCHEDULE (Wolpe)
Behaviour
research and therapy, 1964, 2, pp. 27-29
GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE (Goldberg)
Goldberg, D.P. The
detection of psychiatric illness by questionnaire: a technique
for the identification and assessment of non-psychotic psychiatric
illness. London: Oxford University Press, 1972.
McDowell, I. Measuring
health: a guide to rating scales and questionnaires. 2nd
ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 141-145
(Scaled version) Psychological
medicine, 1979, 9, pp. 139-45
GENERAL SELF-EFFICACY SCALE (Jerusalem & Schwarzer)
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~health/engscal.htm
GENERAL WELL-BEING SCHEDULE (Dupuy, 1977)
McDowell, I. Measuring
health: a guide to rating scales and questionnaires. 2nd
ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 206-213
GLOBAL BELIEF IN A JUST WORLD SCALE
Personality
and individual differences, 1991, 12, p. 1173
GUDJONSSON SUGGESTIBILITY SCALE
Personality
and individual differences, 1984, 5, pp. 303-314
(Parallel version) British
journal of clinical psychology, 1987, 26, pp. 215-221
GUILT INVENTORY (Jones & Kugler)
Psychological
Reports, 2000, 87, pp.1039-42
HASSLES AND UPLIFTS SCALE (DeLongis,
Folkman & Lazarus)
Journal
of personality and social psychology, 1988, 54, pp. 486-95
HEALTH ANXIETY QUESTIONNAIRE
British
journal of health psychology, 1996, 1, pp. 137-150
HEALTH LOCUS OF CONTROL SCALE (Wallston et al)
Journal
of consulting & clinical psychology, 1976, 44, pp.
580-585
HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE (Zigmond & Snaith)
Acta
psychiatrica scandinavica, 1983, 67, pp. 361-370
ILLNESS BEHAVIOR QUESTIONNAIRE
Schutte, N.S. & Malouff, J.M. Sourcebook
of adult assessment strategies. New York: Plenum Press,
1995, pp. 247-253
IMPACT OF EVENTS SCALE (Horowitz et al)
Psychosomatic
medicine, 1979, 41, 209-218
Schutte, N.S. & Malouff, J.M. Sourcebook
of adult assessment strategies. New York: Plenum Press,
1995, pp. 229-233
IMPULSIVENESS QUESTIONNAIRE (Eysenck)
Personality
and individual differences, 1985, 6, pp. 613-619
(Junior IVE Scale)
Personality
and individual differences, 1980, 1, pp. 77-78
INTERNAL-EXTERNAL LOCUS OF CONTROL SCALE (Rotter)
Psychological
monographs, 1966, 80, (609)
Robinson, J.P. et al. Measures
of personality & social psychological attitudes. San
Diego; London: Academic Press, 1991, pp. 420-425
INTERNALITY, POWERFUL OTHERS AND CHANCE SCALES (Levenson)
Journal
of personality assessment, 1974, 38, pp. 377-383
Robinson, J.P. et al. Measures
of personality & social psychological attitudes. San
Diego; London: Academic Press, 1991, pp. 425-428
Lefcourt, H.M. Research
with the locus of control construct. Vol. 1. New York;
London: Academic Press, pp. 56-59
INTERPERSONAL ATTRACTION SCALE (McCroskey & Richmond,
1979)
Tardy, C.H. A
handbook for the study of human communication. Norwood,
N.J.: Ablex, 1988, pp.279-280.
JOB INVOLVEMENT QUESTIONNAIRE
(Lodahl & Ketner)
Journal
of applied psychology, 1965, 49, pp. 24-33
JUROR BIAS SCALE (Kassin & Wrightsman)
Journal
of research in personality, 1983, 17, pp. 423-442
JUST WORLD SCALE (Rubin & Peplau)
(16 version)
Journal
of social issues, 1973, 29 (4), pp. 73-93
(20 version)
Journal
of social issues, 1975, 31 (3), pp. 65-90
LEAST PREFERRED COWORKER SCALE (Fiedler)
Fiedler, F.E. Theory
of leadership effectiveness. New York; London: McGraw-Hill,
1967, pp. 40-41
Fiedler, F.E. & Garcia, J.E. New
approaches to effective leadership: cognitive resources and
organizational performance. New York: Wiley, c1987, pp.
70-71.
Fiedler, F.E. & Chemers, M.M. Improving
leadership effectiveness: the leader match concept. New
York; Chichester: Wiley, c1984, pp. 18-19
http://www.wiley.com/college/man/schermerhorn371939/site/sa/page03.htm
MCGILL PAIN QUESTIONNAIRE
Pain, 1975, 1, pp. 277-299
Schutte, N.S. & Malouff, J.M. Sourcebook
of adult assessment strategies. New York: Plenum Press,
1995, pp. 268-270
McDowell, I. Measuring
health: a guide to rating scales and questionnaires. 2nd
ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
MACH IV / MACH V SCALE (Christie & Geiss)
Christie, R. &
Geiss, F.L.
Studies
in machiavellianism. New York; London: Academic Press, 1970.
Robinson, J.P. et al. Measures
of personality & social psychological attitudes. San
Diego; London: Academic Press, 1991, pp. 376-83
MARLOWE-CROWNE SOCIAL DESIRABILITY SCALE
Journal
of consulting psychology, 1960, 24, pp. 349-354
Crowne, D.P.
Approval
motive: studies in evaluative dependence. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press,
1980.
MINNESOTA SATISFACTION QUESTIONNAIRE (Weiss et al)
Furnham, A. Psychology
of behavior at work: the individual in the organization.
Hove: Psychology Press, 1997, p. 36
MODIFIED WORK LOCUS OF CONTROL SCALE (Guchup & Wolfgang)
Psychological
reports, 1997, 81, pp. 640-2.
MULTIDIMENSIONAL BELIEF IN A JUST WORLD SCALE
Personality
and individual differences, 1991, 12, p. 1174
MULTIDIMENSIONAL BODY SELF RELATIONS SCALE (Cash)
Corcoran, K. & Fischer, J. Measures for clinical practice: A sourcebook. 3rd Ed. Mew York: Free Press, 2000, Vol. 2, pp. 488-491
MULTIDIMENSIONAL FEAR OF DEATH SCALE
Neimeyer, R.A. Death
anxiety handbook: research, instrumentation, and application.
Washington, DC: Taylor & Francis, 1994, p. 117
MULTIDIMENSIONAL HEALTH LOCUS OF CONTROL SCALE (Wallston)
(Scale A)
Journal
of clinical psychology, 1985, 41, p. 375
(Scales A and B) Robinson, J.P. et al. Measures
of personality & social psychological attitudes. San
Diego; London: Academic Press, 1991, pp. 475-479
(Scale C (for patients)) Journal
of personality assessment, 1994, 63, pp. 534-53
OVERALL JOB SATISFACTION MEASURE
(Brayfield & Rothe)
Journal
of applied psychology, 1951, 35, pp. 307-11
Furnham, A. Psychology
of behavior at work: the individual in the organization.
Hove: Psychology Press, 1997, p.306
PADUA INVENTORY (Sanavio)
Behaviour
research and therapy, 1988, 26, pp. 169-177
PARANORMAL BELIEFS QUESTIONNAIRE (McGarry and Newberry)
Journal
of personality and social psychology, 1981, 41, pp. 725-736
PARANORMAL SCALE (Tobacyk and Milford)
Journal
of personality and social psychology, 1983, 44, pp. 1029-1037
PARENTAL BONDING INSTRUMENT (Parker, Tupling and Brown)
British
Journal of Medical Psychology, 1979, 52, pp.1-10
PENN STATE WORRY QUESTIONNAIRE (Meyer)
Behaviour
research and therapy, 1990, 28, pp. 487-495
Davey, G.C.L. & Tallis, F. Worrying:
perspectives on theory, assessment, and treatment. Chichester;
New York: Wiley, 1994, p. 268
POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE AFFECT SCHEDULE (Watson et al)
Journal
of personality and social psychology, 1988, 54, pp. 1063-1070
PROTESTANT ETHIC SCALE (Mirels & Garrett)
Journal
of consulting & clinical psychology, 1971, 36, pp.
40-44
PSYCHOPATHY CHECK LIST - REVISED (Hare)
Legal
and criminological psychology, 1998, 3, pp. 99-119
British
journal of psychiatry, 2000, 177, pp. 303-311
PURPOSE IN LIFE TEST (Crumbaugh)
Journal of Individual Psychology,
1968, 24, pp. 74-81
Robinson, J.P. et al. Measures
of personality & social psychological attitudes. San
Diego; London: Academic Press, 1991, pp. 335-339
QUALITY OF RELATIONSHIPS INVENTORY
(Pierce)
Journal
of personality and social psychology, 1991, 61, pp. 1028-1039
REASONS FOR EXERCISE INVENTORY
(Cash et al)
Perceptual
and motor skills, 1994, 78, pp. 539-544
REASONS FOR EXERCISE INVENTORY (Silberstein et al)
Sex roles, 1988, 19,
pp. 231-232
RELIGIOUS ORIENTATION SCALE (Allport & Ross)
Batson, C.D. Religious
experience: a social-psychological perspective. New York;
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982, p. 153
REMOTE ASSOCIATES TEST
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~kihlstrm/RATest.htm
ROBSON'S SELF ESTEEM SCALE
Psychological
medicine, 1989, 19, pp. 513-518
ROSENBERG SELF ESTEEM SCALE
http://www.bsos.umd.edu/socy/grad/socpsy_rosenberg.html
Rosenberg, M. Society
and the adolescent self image. 2nd ed. Middletown, Conn.:
Wesleyan University Press, 1989.
Rosenberg, M. Conceiving
the self. Malabar, Fla.: R.E. Krieger, 1986, c1979, p.
291
Robinson, J.P. et al. Measures
of personality & social psychological attitudes. San
Diego; London: Academic Press, 1991, pp. 121-123
SATISFACTION WITH LIFE SCALE (Diener)
Journal
of personality assessment, 1985, 49, pp. 71-75
Psychological
Assessment, 1993, 5, pp. 164-72
SELF-EFFICACY SCALE (Sherer)
Psychological
Reports,1982, 51, pp. 663-671
SELF-EXPRESSION AND CONTROL SCALE (van Elderen et al)
British
journal of health psychology, 1997, 2, pp. 269-281
SENSATION SEEKING SCALE (Zuckerman)
Journal
of consulting and clinical psychology, 1978, 46, pp. 139-149
Journal
of consulting and clinical psychology, 1971, 36, pp. 45-52
Journal
of consulting psychology, 1964, 28, p. 477
(SSS-V) Zuckerman, M.
Behavioral
expression and biosocial bases of sensation seeking. Cambridge; New York,
NY: Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. 389-393
SIGNIFICANT OTHERS SCALE (Power)
British
journal of clinical psychology, 1988, 27, pp. 349-358
SOCIAL READJUSTMENT RATING SCALE (Holmes & Rahe)
Journal
of psychosomatic research, 1967, 11, pp. 213-218
Holmes, T.H. & David, E.M.
Life change, life events and illness: selected papers.
Westport, Conn.; London: Praeger, 1989, p. 33-40
STATE SELF-ESTEEM SCALE (Heatherton & Polivy)
Journal
of personality and social psychology, 1991, 60, pp. 895-910
TEXAS SOCIAL BEHAVIOR INVENTORY
(Helmreich et al)
Robinson, J.P. et al. Measures
of personality & social psychological attitudes. San
Diego; London: Academic Press, 1991, pp. 131-134
Helmreich et al: Texas
social behavior inventory (TSBI): an objective measure of self-esteem or social
competence. [Washington, D.C.]: American Psychological Association, 1974.
THREE FACTOR EATING QUESTIONNAIRE (Stunkard and Messick)
Schutte, N.S. & Malouff, J.M. Sourcebook
of adult assessment strategies. New York: Plenum Press,
1995, pp. 314-320
TRAUMA RELATED GUILT INVENTORY (Kubany et al)
Psychological
assessment, 1996, 8, pp. 428-444
WAYS OF COPING SCALE
Lazarus, R.S. & Folkman, S. Stress,
appraisal & coping. New York: Springer Pub. Co., c1984,
pp. 328-333
(Revised ed.) Journal
of personality and social psychology, 1985, 45, pp. 150-70
WORK HARASSMENT SCALE (Björkqvist and Österman, 1992) www.vasa.abo.fi/svf/up/Scales/WHS-English.pdf
WORK LOCUS OF CONTROL SCALE (Spector)
Journal
of occupational psychology, 1988, 61, pp. 335-340
WORKER MOTIVATION SCALE (Wherry & South)
Personnel psychology, 1977, 30, pp. 613-63
