“Hit Me, Maybe, One More Time”: Brief measures of impulsivity and sensation seeking and their prediction of blackjack bets and sexual promiscuity

The Brief Aggression Questionnaire: Structure, Validity, Reliability, and Generalizability

“…Specifically, we recommend that aggression researchers use the original 29-item BPAQ when time and space allows; however, given constrained time and space, we recommend they use the 12-item BAQ. Overall, our findings add to a growing literature that emphasizes the development of concise, efficient, selfreport measures of psychological constructs, with the goal of meeting researchers' contemporary needs (e.g., Ames, Rose, & Anderson, 2005;Bryant & Smith, 2001;Donnellan, Oswald, Baird, & Lucas, 2009;Fraley, Waller, & Brennan, 2000;Gosling, Rentfrow, & Swann, 2003;Jonason & Webster, 2010;Nichols & Webster, 2013, 2015Rammstedt & John, 2007;Robins, Hendin, & Trzesniewski, 2001;Webster & Crysel, 2012;Webster et al, 2014;Webster & Jonason, 2013;Widaman et al, 2011;Wood, Nye, & Saucier, 2010).…”

“…Specifically, these findings improve on prior BAQ research , which reported evidence for convergent validity among the BAQ, its precursors, and behavioral aggression averaged across time (trials). In conjunction with prior work ; see also Jonason & Webster, 2010;Webster, 2006Webster, , 2007Webster & Bryan, 2007;Webster & Crysel, 2012;Webster, Kirkpatrick, Nezlek, Smith, & Paddock, 2007), these studies add to a growing literature of evidence supporting the BAQ as a psychometrically robust measure of individual differences in trait aggression.…”

Designing a brief measure of social anxiety: Psychometric support for a three-item version of the Interaction Anxiousness Scale (IAS-3)

“…We chose the best three items using a two-step criterion (see Webster & Crysel, 2012). First, to sample a broad swath of the latent trait (social anxiety), we chose to examine the top, middle, and bottom three items on average difficulty (i.e., the mean of the 4 bs).…”

“…To meet the growing need of brief measures, researchers have developed and validated shorter measures of some of the most widely-studied constructs, including aggression , the Big Five (Gosling, Rentfrow, & Swann, 2003;Rammstedt & John, 2007), the Dark Triad (Jonason & Webster, 2010;Jones & Paulhus, 2014;Webster & Jonason, 2013) impulsivity and sensation seeking (Webster & Crysel, 2012), and narcissism (Ames, Rose, & Anderson, 2006). Researchers have even developed singleitem measures of constructs such as attitudes towards advertisements or brands (Bergkvist & Rossiter, 2007), the Big Five (Woods & Hampson, 2005), health status (DeSalvo et al, 2006), job satisfaction (Wanous, Reichers, & Hudy, 1997), life satisfaction (Schimmack & Oishi, 2005), need for consistency (Nichols & Webster, 2014), need to belong (Nichols & Webster, 2013), quality of life (Zimmerman et al, 2006), religious orientation (Hettler & Cohen, 1998), and self-esteem (Robins, Hendin, & Trzesniewski, 2001).…”

Online erotica usage as a mediator between internet addiction and engagement in risky online sexual behaviors

“…Additionally, there is much empirical evidence that MTurk participants perform similarly on various measures (including priming and behavioral tasks, and measures of emotional reactions, personality, and political ideation) to those recruited via other standard recruitment methods, like college samples or through social media (e.g., Casler, Bickel, & Hackett, 2013;Clifford, Jewell, & Waggoner, 2016;Eriksson & Simpson, 2010;Feitosa, Joseph, & Newman, 2015;Horton, Rand, & Zeckhauser, 2011). Moreover, MTurk samples have been used specifically to conduct research in the field of sexuality (e.g., Séguin, Milhausen, & Kukkonen, 2015;Webster & Crysel, 2012).…”