Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory of Personality Questionnaires: Structural survey with recommendations

By Philip J. Corr. 2016

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The Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (RST) of personality has attracted considerable psychometric attention and there now exists a number of questionnaires to measure its three main systems: the fight-flight-freeze system (FFFS, related to fear), the behavioural inhibition system (BIS, related to anxiety), and the behavioural approach system (BAS, related to hope and pleasure). This article provides an assessment of the structural properties of these questionnaires in the light of (a) theoretical issues, (b) operational translations, and (c) factor analytic solutions. This review highlights the different theoretical perspectives underlying these descriptive models. To clarify this literature and to assist RST researchers, this article outlines a number of recommendations to guide the choice of questionnaire(s) and interpretation of results - this discussion serves, too, to highlight some of the unresolved issues in RST that call for further conceptual and empirical attention.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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In Applied Psychology

1. D. Krupić
2. Valerija Križanić
3. S. Ručević
4. A. Gračanin
5. Jennifer Gerson
6. Anke C. Plagnol
7. Philip J. Corr
8. N. McNaughton

In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. D. Krupić
2. Valerija Križanić
3. S. Ručević
4. A. Gračanin
5. Jennifer Gerson
6. Anke C. Plagnol
7. Philip J. Corr
8. Luke D. Smillie

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Jennifer Gerson
2. Anke C. Plagnol
3. D. Krupić
4. Valerija Križanić
5. S. Ručević
6. A. Gračanin
7. Philip J. Corr
8. Colin G. DeYoung

Citations in the corpus

• Passive and Active Facebook Use Measure (PAUM): Validation and relationship to the Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (2017, background): “While the BAS was initially conceptualized as a single dimension, recent developments in RST research (Corr & Cooper, 2016) suggest that the BAS is multidimensional (Carver & White, 1994; Smederevac, Mitrović, Čolović, & Nikolašević, 2014; see Corr, 2016 for an overview).”
• Five reinforcement sensitivity theory (RST) of personality questionnaires: Comparison, validity and generalization (2016, background): “The available data evidences the usefulness of studying the separate BAS scales (e.g. Krupić, Gračanin, & Corr, 2016).”