Passive Risk Taking Scale (PRT)

Keinan, R., & Bereby-Meyer, Y. (2012). “Leaving it to chance”—Passive risk taking in everyday life. Judgment and Decision Making, 7(6), 705-715.

The Passive Risk Taking Scale itself: Passive_Risk_Taking_Scale.pdf
Italian Version: Passive_Risk_Taking_Scale_IT.pdf and validation

	Table of Contents
	Description
	References

Description:

Purpose		The Passive Risk Taking scale is designed to measure a personal tendency for passive risk taking. Passive risk taking means forgoeing an opportunity to act in order reduce outcome varience (like: not checking the credit card bill or not getting tested for cancer).
Questions		25 items, using a 7 point rating scale indicating to what extentDomain_Specific_Risk_Attitude.html they are likely to behave in the manner described in each item
Sub-scales		3 subscales: risks that involve resources risks that involve medical issues risks that involve ethical issues
Domain		Risk Attitude : Measures of Risk Attitude
Sample items		buying clothes without trying them on (resources) asking the person you are seeing about his/her sexual history (medical,flipped at analysis) going through customs without declaring goods that should be taxed (ethical)

References:

Scale:

Keinan, R., & Bereby-Meyer, Y. (2012). “Leaving it to chance”—Passive risk taking in everyday life. Judgment and Decision Making, 7(6), 705-715. Riva, S., Gorini, A., Cutica, I., Mazzacco, K., & Pravettoni, G. (2015). Translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and reliability, of the Italian version of the Passive Risk Taking (PRT) Scale, 10(6), 597-604.