MEASURE: Barratt Impulsiveness Scale

Description:

The 34-item Barratt Impulsiveness Scale—Version 1.0 (Barratt, 1985; Patton, Stanford, & Barratt, 1995) includes questions focusing on motor impulsivity (acting without thinking), cognitive impulsivity (making quick cognitive decisions), and future-planning impulsivity (lack of concern about the future). Example items are: “I act on the spur of the moment”, and “I say things without thinking”. Items are answered on a 4-point scale (1 = rarely/never and 4 = almost always/always).

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Reference(s)

• Barratt, E.S., (1985). Impulsiveness subtraits: Arousal and information processing. In. J.T. Spence & C.E. Izard (Eds.), Motivation, emotion and personality (pp. 137-146). North-Holland: Elsevier Science.
• Patton, J.H., Stanford, M.S., & Barratt, E.S. (1995). Factor structure of the Barratt impulsiveness scale. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 51 (6), 768-774.

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Publication(s)

• Chang, L., Lu, H., Lansford, J. E., Bornstein, M. H., Steinberg, L., Chen, B., Skinner, A. T., Dodge, K. A., Deater-Deckard, K., Bacchini, D., Pastorelli, C., Alampay, L. P., Tapanya, S., Sorbring, E., Oburu, P., Al-Hassan, S., Di Giunta, L., Malone, P. S., Uribe Tirado, L. M., & Yotanyamaneewong, S. (2019). External environment and internal state in relation to life-history behavioural profiles of adolescents in nine countries. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286(1917), 20192097.