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).
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.
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.
Lu, H. J., Lansford, J. E., Liu, Y. Y., Chen, B. B., Bornstein, M. H., Skinner, A. T., Dodge, K. A., Steinberg, L., Deater-Deckard, K., Bacchini, D., Pastorelli, C., Alampay, L. P., Sorbring, E., Gurdal, S., Al-Hassan, S. M., Oburu, P., Yotanyamaneewong, S., Tapanya, S., Di Giunta, L., Uribe Tirado, L. M., Rothenberg, W. A., & Chang, L. (2025). Attachment security, environmental adversity, and fast life history behavioral profiles in human adolescents. Development and psychopathology, 37(3), 1534-1542.
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