I search for some questionnaires that evaluate and check reward pathway in individuals. Till now I found Behavioral Inhibition System (BIS) and Behavioral Action System (BAS) questionnaires, can you please help me with more questionnaire.
Hi Ali Motahharynia ,
In order to study reward pathways you may need to focus on cellular and molecular aspects of reward processing in the brain. Depending on the type of reward and/or addictive behavior several different mechanisms have been disclosed and elaborated with almost similar pathways but subtle differences are in the dynamics of brain region projections such as the VTA, PFC, LH, NAc, hippocampus and sensory systems.
But to answer your question, in terms of supplementing your study with results of a questionnaire as a kind of behavioral task, you may want to examine SRQ depending again on what you would need to assess in reward processing and if you study social interactions as well:
Article Social Reward Questionnaire (SRQ): Development and validation
You could check out the Reward Response Questionnaire, which I think has been validated against EEG evoked-P3 for reward. The Temporal Experience of Pleasure Scale (Gard et al.) is another option, although the anticipatory pleasure subscale has some items that probably aren't suited in all cultural contexts.
Dear Bahman Sadeghi thank you professor for your detailed answer, actually in the first step we want to choose patients based on the questionnaire and after that do further evaluation, more to that I found this questionnaire but unfortunately this questionnaire not validated for our country.
The Sensitivity to Punishment/Sensitivity to Reward Questionnaire(SPSRQ) that is a self-reported instrument that includes 48 yes/no questions divided into two subscales: Sensitivity to Reward (SR) and Sensitivity to Punishment (SP)
Dear David Hallford
Thanks for your answer, I didn't hear about The Temporal Experience of Pleasure Scale, and although few studies examined the questionnaire in other culture, maybe validating that is an option for future studies.
Since you are using questionnaires, you must be working with human subjects. Addiction is an optimal model for looking at the reward system, and cocaine's "high", its withdrawal, craving, and most of the risk for relapse from recovery are all mediated through the reward circuits of the nucleus accumbens. I do not know whether this is the model you plan to study, but I will attach a recent article about it that lists and gives references for all the questionnaires they used. Good luck!
A related construct my lab uses (and a measure that was based off the BIS/BAS scales) is the "sensitivity to punishment/sensitivity to reward" questionnaires (SPSRQ). I haven't looked too much into the psychometrics; however, so buyer beware :)
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