A to Z Listing of Scales

The following is an alphabetical list of all of the over 170 measures covered by the DMIDI.


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Measure Category Citation
A
Abbreviated Numeracy Scale (ANS) Cognitive Ability: Specific Weller et al. (2012)
Action-State Orientation (ASO) Motivation: Self-Regulation Kuhl (1994)
Actively Open-Minded Thinking Beliefs (AOT) Decision: Style Haran, Ritov, & Mellers (2013)
Adjective Checklist Personality: Inventories: Other Gough & Heilbrun (1965, 1988)
Adult - Decision Making Competence (ADMC) Decision: Approach: Competence Bruine de Bruin et al. (2007)
Advanced Vocabulary Test (V4)
from the Kit of Reference Tests for Cognitive Factors
Cognitive Ability: Specific French et al. (1963)
AH4 intelligence test Cognitive Ability: Global Heim (1968)
AH5 intelligence test Cognitive Ability: Global Heim (1968)
Ambiguity-Probability Tradeoff Task Risk Attitude: Ambiguity Lauriola & Levin (2001)
Ambiguity Tolerance Scale Risk Attitude: Ambiguity MacDonald (1970)
Angling Risk Task (ART) Risk Attitude: Behavioral Pleskac (2008)
Arnett Inventory of Sensation Seeking (AISS) Risk Attitude: Personality Arnett (1994)
Assessment of Career Decision Making (ACDM) Decision: Style: Decision Style Harren (1978)
Attitudes About Reality Scale Miscellaneous: World View Unger et al. (1986)
Attitudes to Risk Taking Risk Attitude: Attitude Grol et al. (1990)
B
Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding (BIDR) Motivation: Social Desirability Paulhus (1991)
Balloon Analog Risk Task (BART) Risk Attitude: Behavioral Lejuez et al. (2002)
Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS) Personality: Constructs: Impulsiveness Patton et al. (1995)
Behavior Identification Form (BIF) Miscellaneous: Construals Vallacher & Wegner (1989)
Behavioral Inhibition Scale / Behavioral Activation Scale
(BIS / BAS)
Motivation: Self-Regulation Carver & White (1994)
Beliefs about Global Climate Change Miscellaneous:
Environmental Attitudes
Heath & Gifford (2006)
Belief in a Just World Miscellaneous: World View Lucas et al. (2007)
Berlin Numeracy Test Cognitive Ability: Specific Ability Cokely et al. (2012)
Bomb Risk Elicitation Task Risk Attitude: Behavioral Measures of Risk Crosetto & Filippin (2012)
Big Five Inventory (BFI) Personality: Inventories: Big Five John et al. (1991)
Big Five Markers Personality: Inventories: Big Five Shafer (1997, 1999)
Big Five Questionnaire (BFQ) Personality: Inventories: Big Five Caprara et al. (1993)
Business Risk Propensity Scale (BRPS) Risk Attitude: Attitude Sitkin & Weingart (1995)
C
Calculated and Spontaneous Risk Taking Scale (CASPRT) Risk Attitude: Attitude Zhang & Smith (2025)
California Psychological Inventory (CPI) Personality: Inventories: Other Gough (1987)
Cat & Mouse Risk Task Risk Attitude: Behavioral Figner & Schaub (2009)
CFPB Financial Well-Being Scale Miscellaneous Measures Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (2017)
Choice Dilemmas Questionnaire (CDQ) Risk Attitude: Attitude Kogan & Wallach (1964)
Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) Cognitive Ability: Specific Frederick (2005)
Cognitive Reflection Test - Multiple Choice Versions (CRT MCQ) Cognitive Ability: Specific Sirota & Juanchich (2018)
Cognitive Style Index (CSI) Decision: Style: Cognitive Style Allinson & Hayes (1996)
Cognitive Style Indicator (CoSI) Decision: Style: Cognitive Style Cools & Van den Broeck (2007)
Cognitive Appraisal of Risky Events (CARE & CARE-R) Risk Attitude: Attitude Fromme et al. (1997)
Columbia Card Task (CCT) Risk Attitude: Behavioral Figner et al. (2009)
Compensatory Style Questionnaire (CSQ) Decision: Style: Decision Style Zakay (1990)
Compulsive Activity Checklist – Revised (CAC-R) Personality: Constructs: Obsession Steketee & Freund (1991)
Consideration of Future Consequences Personality: Constructs: Time Strathman et al. (1994)
Constructive Thinking Inventory (CTI) Decision: Style: Cognitive Style Epstein & Meier (1989)
Consumer Wisdom Scale (CWS) Decision Approach Luchs et al. (2021)
Consumers' Need for Uniqueness Motivation: Fears & Needs Tian et al. (2001)
Consumers' Need for Uniqueness - short form Motivation: Fears & Needs Ruvio et al. (2008)
Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory Personality: Constructs: Self Coopersmith (1967, 1981)
Core Self-Evaluations Scale Personality: Constructs: Self Judge et al. (2003)
Cultural Cognition Worldview Scales (CCWS) Personality: Constructs: Cultural and Risk Attitude: Personality Kahan (2012)
Cups Task Risk Attitude: Behavioral Levin & Hart (2003)
D
Decision Making Style Inventory (DMI) Decision: Style: Decision Style Nygren (2000)
Decision Outcome Inventory (DOI) Decision: Approach: Competence Bruine de Bruin et al. (2007)
Decision Styles Questionnaire (DSQ) Decision: Style: Decision Style Leykin & DeRubeis (2010)
Decision Styles Scale (DSS) Decision: Style: Decision Style Hamilton et al. (2016)
Desire for Self-Control Scale (DSCS) Decision: Self-Regulation Uziel & Baumeister (2017)
Devil's Task Risk Attitude: Behavioral Slovic (1966)
Dickman’s Impulsivity Inventory (DII) Personality: Constructs: Impulsiveness Dickman (1990)
Dictator Game Motivation: Interpersonal Kahneman et al. (1986)
Dispositional Greed Scale (DGS) Constructs: Greed & Materialism Seuntjens et al. (2015)
Distribution Builder Risk Attitude: Behavioral Goldstein et al. (2008)
Dogmatism Scale Miscellaneous: World View Rokeach (1960)
Domain Specific Risk Attitude (DoSpeRT) Risk Attitude: Attitude Weber et al. (2002)
Dynamic Experiments for Estimating Preferences: Risk (DEEP Risk) Risk Attitude: Behavioral Toubia et al. (2012)
Dynamic Experiments for Estimating Preferences: Time (DEEP) Personality: Constructs: Time Toubia et al. (2012)
E
Edwards Social Desirability Scale (Edwards SDS) Motivation: Social Desirability Edwards (1957)
Elaboration on Potential Outcomes (EPO) Decision: Approach: Approach or
Personality: Constructs: Time
Nenkov et al. (2007)
Empathy Measure (EM) Personality: Constructs: Interpersonal Hogan (1969)
Evaluation of Risk Scale (EVAR) Risk Attitude: Attitude Sicard et al. (1999)
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) Risk Attitude: Personality or
Personality: Inventories: Other
Eysenck & Eysenck (1975)
Eysenck’s Impulsivity Inventory Risk Attitude: Personality or
Personality: Constructs: Impulsiveness
or Personality: Inventories: Other
Eysenck & Eysenck (1978)
F
Fair Market Ideology (FMI) Miscellaneous: World View Jost et al. (2003))
Free Market Ideology Miscellaneous: World View Heath & Gifford (2006)
Faith in People Personality: Constructs: Interpersonal Rosenberg (1957)
Fear of Negative Evaluation (FNE) Motivation: Fears & Needs
and Interpersonal
Leary (1983)
Financial Literacy Cognitive Ability: Specific Lusardi (2008)
Five Item Personality Inventory (FIPI) Personality: Inventories: Big Five Gosling et al. (2003)
Flinders Adolescent Decision Making Questionnaire Decision: Approach: Approach Mann et al. (1988)
Flinders Decision Making Questionnaire Decision: Approach: Approach Mann (1982)
Following Affective States Test (FAST) Decision: Style: Cognitive Style Gasper & Bramesfeld (2005)
Future Time Orientation Personality: Constructs: Time Gjesme (1975)
G
General Decision-Making Style (GDMS) Decision: Style: Decision Style Scott & Bruce (1995)
General Regulatory Focus Measure (GRFM) Motivation: Self-Regulation Lockwood et al. (2002)
General Risk Propensity Scale (GRiPS) Risk Attitude: Measures of Risk Attitude Zhang, Highhouse, & Nye (2018)
Graduate Record Examination (GRE) Cognitive Ability: Specific n/a
Grit Scale Personality Measures: "Self" Measures Duckworth & Quinn (2009)
Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT) Miscellaneous: Field Dependence Oltman et al. (1971)
H
HEXACO Personality Inventory (HEXACO PI) Personality: Inventories: Other Lee & Ashton (2004)
Hoarding Scale Personality: Constructs: Obsession Frost & Gross (1992)
Horizontal & Vertical Individualism & Collectivism I Personality: Constructs: Cultural Singelis et al. (1995)
Horizontal & Vertical Individualism & Collectivism II Personality: Constructs: Cultural Triandis & Gelfand (1998)
I
Indecisiveness Scale Decision: Approach: Approach Frost & Shows (1993)
Inequality Aversion Motivation: Interpersonal Misc.
Internal vs. External Attribution Scale
(currently under construction)
Personality: Constructs: Cultural Morris & Peng (1994)
Internal-External Scale (I-E Scale) Personality: Constructs: Control Rotter (1966)
Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) Personality: Constructs: Interpersonal Davis (1980)
Intolerance of Ambiguity Risk Attitude: Ambiguity Budner (1962)
Independent-Interdependent Problem-Solving Scale Decision: Style: Decision Style Rubin et al. (in press)
Intuitive-Analytical Judgment Scale Decision: Style: Decision Style Sjöberg (2003)
Iowa Gambling Task Risk Attitude: Behavioral Bechara et al. (1994)
J
Jackson Personality Inventory (JPI) Risk Attitude: Personality or
Personality: Inventories: Other
Jackson (1976)
K
L
Lennox & Wolfe Self-Monitoring Scale Personality: Constructs: Self Lennox & Wolfe (1984)
Lerner and Keltner Trait Anger Scale Miscellaneous: Affect Lerner & Keltner (2000)
Life Orientation Test-Revised (LOT-R) Miscellaneous: Optimism Scheier et al. (1994)
M
Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale (MC-SDS) Motivation: Social Desirability Crowne & Marlowe (1960)
Maudsley Obsessive Compulsive Inventory (MOCI) Personality: Constructs: Obsession Rachman & Hodgson (1980)
Maudsley Personality Inventory (MPI) Personality: Inventories: Other Eysenck (1959)
Maximization Inventory Decision: Style: Decision Style Turner et al. (2012)
Maximization Scale (MS) Decision: Style: Decision Style Schwartz et al. (2002)
Maximization Scale - short form Decision: Style: Decision Style Nenkov et al. (2008)
Maximizing Tendency Scale (MTS) Decision: Style: Decision Style Diab et al. (2008)
Melbourne Decision Making Questionnaire Decision: Approach: Approach Mann et al. (1997)
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) Personality: Inventories: Other Hathaway & McKinley (1943)
Moral Authority Scale - Revised (MAS-R) Miscellaneous: Moral Reasoning White (1997)
Multidimensional Attitude towards Ambiguity Scale (MAAS) Risk Attitude: Measures of Ambiguity Attitude
or Motivation: Fears & Needs: Epistemic
or Decision: Style: Epistemic
Foscha et al. (in press)
Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale Personality: Constructs: Obsession Frost et al. (1990)
Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale Personality: Constructs: Obsession Hewitt & Flett (1991)
Multi-Outcome Risky Decision Task Risk Attitude: Behavioral Lopes & Oden (1999)
Multiple Stimulus Types Ambiguity Tolerance Risk Attitude: Ambiguity McLain (1993)
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Personality: Inventories: Other Myers (1962)
N
Need for Affiliation and Achievement Motivation: Fears & Needs
and Interpersonal
Jackson (1967)
Need for Arousal Risk Attitude: Personality
or Motivation: Fears & Needs
Figner et al. (2009)
Need for (Cognitive) Closure Scale (NFCS) Motivation: Fears & Needs: Epistemic
or Decision: Style: Epistemic
Webster & Kruglanski (1994)
Need for Cognition (NFC) Motivation: Fears & Needs: Epistemic
or Decision: Style: Epistemic
Cacioppo & Petty (1982)
Need for Cognition - short (NFC) Motivation: Fears & Needs: Epistemic
or Decision: Style: Epistemic
Cacioppo et al. (1984)
Need for Uniqueness (NFU) Motivation: Fears & Needs
and Interpersonal
Snyder & Fromkin (1977)
Need to Evaluate Motivation: Fears & Needs Jarvis & Petty (1996)
Nelson-Denny Reading Test Cognitive Ability: Specific Brown et al. (1993)
NEO Five Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) Personality: Inventories: Big Five Costa & McCraw (1992)
NEO Personality Inventory-Revised (NEO PI-R) Personality: Inventories: Big Five Costa & McCraw (1992, 2007)
New Ecological Paradigm - Revised (NEP-R) Miscellaneous:
Environmental Attitudes
Dunlap et al. (2000)
Numeracy - Original (3 item) Cognitive Ability: Specific Schwartz et al. (1997)
Numeracy - Expanded (11 item) Cognitive Ability: Specific Lipkus et al. (2001)
Numeracy - Expanded (15 item) Cognitive Ability: Specific Peters et al. (2007)
O
Obsessive Compulsive Inventory - Revised (OCI-R) Personality: Constructs:Obsession Foa et al. (2002)
Obsessive Thoughts Questionnaire (OTQ) Personality: Constructs: Obsession Bouvard et al. (1989)
Older Adult - Decision Making Competence (OADMC) Decision: Approach: Competence Finucane & Gullion (2010)
P
Passive Risk Taking Scale (PRT) Risk Attitude: Measures of Risk Attitude Keinan & Bereby-Meyer (2012)
Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ) Miscellaneous: Worry Meyer et al. (1990)
Perceived Financial Well-Being Scale Miscellaneous: Life Satisfaction & Financial Well-Being
Personal Fear of Invalidity Motivation: Fears & Needs or
Epistemic
Thompson et al. (2001)
Personal Living Space Cue Inventory (PLSCI) Miscellaneous: Living Space Cues Gosling et al. (2005)
Personal Need for Structure Motivation: Fears & Needs or
Epistemic
Thompson et al. (2001)
Philosophy of Human Nature Personality: Constructs: Interpersonal Wrightsman (1964)
Polarity Scale Miscellaneous: World View Tomkins (1964)
Positive And Negative Affect Scale (PANAS) Miscellaneous: Affect Watson et al. (1988)
Pre-adolescent Decision Making Competence (PT-DMC) Decision Competence Weller et al. (2011)
Prisoners' Dilemma Motivation: Interpersonal
Proactive Decision Making (PDM) Decision: Approach Siebert & Kunz (2016)
Problem Solving Inventory (PSI) Decision: Approach: Competence Heppner & Petersen (1982)
Procrastination Assessment Scale for Students (PASS) Decision: Approach: Approach Solomon & Rothblum (1984)
Propensity to Plan Decision: Approach: Approach or
Personality: Constructs: Time
Lynch et al. (2010)
Q
Quality of Social Functioning Index (QoSF) Cognitive Ability: Specific Levin et al. (2023)
Questionnaire Measure of Emotional Empathy (QMEE) Personality: Constructs: Interpersonal Mehrabian & Epstein (1972)
R
Rational-Experiential Inventory - 59 item (REI) Decision: Style: Cognitive Style Epstein et al. (1995)
Rational-Experiential Inventory - 31 item (REI) Decision: Style: Cognitive Style Epstein et al. (1996)
Rational-Experiential Inventory - short (10 item) (REI) Decision: Style: Cognitive Style Epstein et al. (1996)
Rational-Experiential Inventory - revised (40 item) (REI) Decision: Style: Cognitive Style Norris et al. (1998)
Pacini & Epstein (1999)
Rational-Experiential Inventory - Adolescents (REI-A) Decision: Style: Cognitive Style Marks et al. (2008)
Raven’s standard progressive matrices (SPM) Cognitive Ability: Global Raven et al. (2003)
ReadySDM Miscellaneous Scales Keij, Stiggelbout & Pieterse (2024)
Reflection-Impulsivity scale (Japanese only) Decision: Style: Cognitive Style Takigiku & Sakamoto (2001)
Regret Scale Decision: Approach: Approach Schwartz et al. (2002)
Regulatory Focus Questionnaire (RFQ) Motivation: Self-Regulation Higgins et al. (2001)
Regulatory Mode Questionnaire (RMQ) Motivation: Self-Regulation Kruglanski et al. (2000)
Relational-Interdependent Self-Construal Personality: Constructs: Cultural
or Self
Cross et al. (2000)
Resistance to Change (RTC) Motivation: Fears & Needs or
Risk Attitude: Personality
Oreg (2003)
Response to Failure Scale (RTFS) Motivation: Self-Regulation Zemack-Rugar et al. (2012)
Reyna & Ellis Risk Task Risk Attitude: Behavioral Reyna & Ellis (1994)
Ring Measure of Social Values Motivation: Interpersonal Liebrand (1984)
Liebrand & McClintock (1988)
McClintock (1978)
Risk Avoidance Scale (RAS), one sub-scale
of the Personality/Attitude Schedule
Risk Attitude: Attitude or
Personality: Inventories: Other
Shure & Meeker (1967)
Risk Tasks - Miscellaneous
(e.g., gambles, lotteries, & vignettes)
Risk Attitude: Behavioral Misc.
Risk Propensity Scale Risk Attitude: Attitude Nicholson et al. (2004)
Risk-taking Propensity Risk Attitude: Attitude Jackson et al. (1971, 1972)
Risk-taking Propensity Measures Risk Attitude: Behavioral or
Attitude or Personality
MacCrimmon & Wehrung (1985)
Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale Personality: Constructs: Self Rosenberg (1965)
S
Safe Asset vs. Risky Task Risk Attitude Kramer & Weber (2011)
SAT (formerly known as the Scholastic Aptitude Test) Cognitive Ability: Specific n/a
Saving Personality Motivation: Self-Regulation Otto et al. (2007)
Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) Miscellaneous: Life Satisfaction Diener et al. (1985)
Self-Concept Clarity Personality: Constructs: Self Campbell et al. (1996)
Self-Consciousness Scale Personality: Constructs: Self Fenigstein et al. (1975)
Self-Consciousness Revised Personality: Constructs: Self Scheier & Carver (1985)
Self-Construal Personality: Constructs: Self Singelis (1994)
Self-Esteem Scales Personality: Constructs: Self Forsman & Johnson (1996)
Self-Guide Strength Measure Motivation: Self-Regulation Higgins et al. (1997)
Self-Monitoring Scale Personality: Constructs: Self Snyder (1974)
Self-Report Altruism Scale (SRA) Motivation: Interpersonal Rushton et al. (1981)
Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS) Risk Attitude: Personality or
Personality: Constructs: Impulsiveness
Zuckerman et al. (1978)
Sequential Investment Task (SIT) Risk Attitude: Behavioral Measures of Risk Frey, Rieskamp, & Hertwig (2015)
Shipley Institute of Living Scale
- Vocabulary and Abstraction subscales (SILS)
Cognitive Ability: Specific Shipley (1946)
Zachary (1986)
Short Adjective Checklist (SACBIF) (Italian only) Personality: Inventories: Big Five Perugini & Leone (1996)
Short Affect Intensity Scale Miscellaneous: Affect Greuen & de Pelsmacker (2002)
Short Test Of Music Preferences (STOMP) Miscellaneous: Music Preferences Rentfrow & Gosling (2003)
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PFQ) Personality: Inventories: Big Five Cattell et al. (1970, 1980)
Sociability Scale Personality: Constructs: Interpersonal Measures Foschi & Lauriola (2014)
Social Value Orientation (SVO) Slider Motivation: Interpersonal Murphy et al. (2011)
Spheres of Control Personality: Constructs: Control Paulhus (1983)
Stimulating-Instrumental Risk Inventory Risk Attitude: Attitude Zaleskiewicz (2001)
Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS) Miscellaneous: Happiness Lyubomirsky & Lepper (1999)
Subjective Numeracy Scale (SNS) Cognitive Ability: Specific Fagerlin et al. (2007)
System Justification - America Miscellaneous: World View Kay & Jost (2003)
System Justification - Economic Miscellaneous: World View Jost & Thompson (2000)
System Justification - Gender Miscellaneous: World View Jost & Kay (2005)
T
Temperament and Character Inventory Personality: Inventories: Other Cloninger et al. (1993)
Ten Item Personality Inventory (TIPI) Personality: Inventories: Big Five Gosling et al. (2003)
Thinking and Working Style (TWS) Decision: Style: Cognitive Style Sagiv et al. (2010)
Three-option Adaptive Discount Rate Measure (ToAD) Decision: Constructs: Impulsiveness Measures Yoon & Chapman (2016)
Tightwad-Spendthrift Scale Decision Approach & Competence Measures: Decision Approach Rick et al. (2008)
Trait Descriptive Adjectives (TDA) Personality: Inventories: Big Five Goldberg (1992)
Trust in People Personality: Constructs: Interpersonal Yamagishi & Yamagishi (1994)
Trust Inventory Personality: Constructs: Interpersonal Couch et al. (1996)
Two-Outcome Risky Decision Task Risk Attitude: Behavioral Lauriola et al. (2007)
U
Ultimatum Game Motivation: Interpersonal Güth et al. (1982)
UPPS Impulsive Behavior Scale Personality: Constructs: Impulsiveness Whiteside & Lynam (2001)
V
Values Survey Module Personality: Constructs: Cultural Hofstede (1994, 1998,
2001, 2008)
Vancouver Obsessional Compulsive Inventory (VOCI) Personality:Constructs:Obsession Thordarson et al. (2004)
Verbal Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT-V) Cognitive Ability:Specific Sirota et al. (2020)
W
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) Cognitive Ability: Global Wechsler (1955, 1997)
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) Cognitive Ability: Global Wechsler (1949, 2003)
Wechsler Preschool & Primary Scale of Intelligence
- Revised (WPPSI-R)
Cognitive Ability: Global Wechsler (1967, 2002)
Wesman Personnel Classification Test Cognitive Ability: Specific Wesman (1965)
X
Y
Youth - Decision Making Competence Decision: Approach: Competence Parker & Fischhoff (2005)
Z
Zuckerman-Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire (ZKPQ) Risk Attitude: Personality or
Personality: Inventories: Other
Zuckerman & Kuhlman (2000)

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