In Psychology, BIS/BAS questionnaire assess Reward drive, fun seeking like behavior of an individual. Wherever, I have read, I have seen generalized questions in BIS/BAS. I am looking for a questionnaire that assesses affinity of individual specific for reward. For example, for substance use. Is there any questionnaire which can differentiate an individual who takes substance just for fun (fun seeking) from someone who has high reward drive for substance. Given that BIS/BAS scores of both individuals are same. Is modifying BIS/BAS questionnaire for reward is acceptable or is there any other questionnaire available that shows affinity of an individual towards specific stimulus (Reward)?
Dear Satya,
send an email to Susan M Moore or contact her here on RG and you get a good answer:
BIS/BAS is an instrument designed to assess two orthogonal (independent) motivational systems: appetitive and aversive. Therefore, it measures dispositional determinants of the behavior, while you need to assess the motivation systems related to a particular stimulus and also probably its incentive value, which is a more specific domain partially related to both dispositional and situational determinants. Therefore, you'd need a specific instrument, but not BIS/BAS. I do not know any questionnaire that fits to your research objectives. But if you don't find any validated instrument, I encourage you to design and validate it. A source to inspirate the pilot items which might constitute the pilot version of your questionnaire could be just the scales which are just designed to measure dispositional constructs as impulsivity, sensation-seeking, or sensitivity to reward, since they have some items devoted to substances consumption and other related behaviors. Examples of such scales are BIS/BAS, SSS, and SPSRQ. With regard to this last, you have a link below.
Article The Sensitivity to Punishment and Sensitivity to Reward Ques...
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