Barratt Impulsiveness Scale Revised - BISR

Technical Manual

Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond

Created: January 18, 2018

Last Modified: January 03, 2023 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond

Script Copyright © Millisecond Software, LLC

Background

This script implements the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11) described in:

Wai-Yee Chen (2013). Appendix B: Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (Revised) https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118638279.app2

Original publication: Patton, J.H., Standford, M.S., & Barratt, E.S. (1995). Factor Structure of the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 51, 768-774.

Duration

2 minutes

Scoring

The questionnaire contains 30 questions. Each question is presented with 4 answer choices
(-> "Rarely/Never", "Occasionally", "Often", "Almost Always/Always").

Each of the questions belongs to 6 subscales (derived from 6 first order factors and 3 first order factors)

1. AttentionalFacet I: 1, 2R, 3, 4R, 5
2. AttentionalFacet2: 6, 7, 8
3. MotorFacetI: 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
4. MotorFacetII: 16, 17, 18, 19R
5. PlanningFacetI: 20R, 21R, 22R, 23R, 24R, 25
6. PlanningFacetII: 26R, 27R, 28, 29, 30R
(R = reversed scoring, depends on wording)

Scoring: on a 4-point scale
"1" for least Impulsive choice to "4" for most Impulsive choice
=> Minimum Score: 30
=> Maximum Score: 120

EDITABLE CODE:

/presentFeedback: true(1) - default: presents feedback at the end
false(0): does not present feedback at the end

Summary Data

File Name: bis_revised_summary*.iqdat

Data Fields

NameDescription
inquisit.version Inquisit version number
computer.platform Device platform: win | mac |ios | android
startDate Date the session was run
startTime Time the session was run
subjectId Participant ID
groupId Group number
sessionId Session number
elapsedTime Session duration in ms
completed 0 = Test was not completed
1 = Test was completed
bisTotalScore The sum of all subscores
attentionalFacet1 Score on Attentional Facet I (Range:5-20)
attentionalFacet2 Score on Attentional Facet II (Range:3-12)
motorFacet1 Score on Motor Facet I (Range:7-28)
motorFacet2 Score on Motor Facet II (Range:4-16)
planningFacet1 Score on Planning Facet I (Range:6-24)
planningFacet2 Score on Planning Facet II (Range:5-20)

Raw Data

File Name: bis_revised.iqdat

Data Fields

NameDescription
date Date the session was run
time Time the session was run
subject, group, session With the current subject/groupnumber/session id
build Inquisit version number
q*_response Response given (in assigned values)
Scale: 1 (rarely never) - 4 (almost always)
R = automatically reversed scored questions
q*_latency How much time (in ms) the participant spent on the surveyPage with this particular
question (the last time this particular surveyPage was visited)