Development and validation of hierarchically structured questionnaire of approach and avoidance motivation

Moncel, Céline; Osmont, Anaïs; Pavani, Jean‐Baptiste; Pichot, Nicolas; Dauvier, Bruno

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2023.112144

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“…Already in the 1980s, individual differences in sensitivity of these neurological systems have been related to different personality dispositions in reacting to the environmental stimuli (e.g., Fowles, 1987 ; Carver & White, 1994 ). Moreover, each one of these motivational systems is thought to produce typical affective experiences related to interest and joy in the case of BAS, or anxious and fearful affect in the case of BIS and FFFS, respectively (e.g.,Carver & White, 1994 ; Greenaway et al, 2015 ; Wytykowska et al, 2021 ; Moncel, et al, 2023 ). As mentioned before, the BIS needs to be distinguished from the FFFS system (Corr & Cooper, 2016 ).…”

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The reinforcement sensitivity theory affects questionnaire (RST-AQ). A validation study of a new scale targeting affects related to anxiety, approach motivation and fear

2023

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This paper presents the RST-AQ, a 22-item scale to measure the affective states related to the three motivational systems postulated by Reinforcement Sensitivity theory (RST-AQ): the Behavioral approach system (BAS), Behavioral inhibition system (BIS), and the Fight-Flight-Freeze system (FFFS). The three subscales are internally consistent. Results show an overall support for construct validity of our RST-AQ measure. The correlations of the RST-AQ subscales with other measures demonstrate a good convergent and divergent validity with regard to the subscales of BAS and BIS. The RTS-AQ Scale provides researcher with the first instrument to measures the affective states of the RST theory.

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