The Behavioural Inhibition System and Behavioural Approach System (BIS/BAS) Scales: Measurement and structural invariance across adults and adolescents

Psychometric properties of three personality inventories translated to Sinhalese

“…The reversed-scored BIS item, "I have very few fears compared to my friends" was not significant and had poor factor loading. Similar findings for this item have been reported in other studies (36,37,38,39) which found this item (and the other reverse-scored BIS items) problematic in their studies involving adolescent, clinical and offender samples. Poythress and colleagues (39) suggested this item and the other reverse-scored BIS item "Even if something bad is about to happen to me, I rarely experience fear or nervousness" may explore a different aspect of behavioural inhibition.…”

Sensitivity to reward is associated with snack and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption in adolescents

“…The study by Voigt et al [27] examined the associations of the different BAS subscales to risky health behaviors and found no association between BAS FS and diet. Convergent validity and internal consistency of these BAS scales in adolescents have been confirmed in previous studies [24][25][26]. In the present sample the Cronbach's Alphas were assessed as good for BAS DRV (α = 0.81) and acceptable for BAS RR (α = 0.69).…”

“…These scales measure BAS through three activational factors [22]: fun seeking (BAS FS), reward responsiveness (BAS RR), and drive (BAS DRV). Previous research has yielded evidence for the psychometric properties of the BAS scales [22][23][24][25][26]. Previous research has also, however, shown that mainly BAS RR and DRV are associated with food intake and not BAS FS [21,27,28].…”

Association between the HTR2B gene and the personality trait of fun seeking

“…The BIS scale was correlated at À.05 with fun seeking, À.10 with drive, and .25 with reward responsiveness. These results were similar to those obtained in previous studies of non-clinical samples (Cooper, Gomez, & Aucote, 2007;Jorm et al, 1998).…”