Bergen Shopping Addiction Scale

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Bergen Shopping Addiction Scale
Purposeassessing the severity of shopping addiction

The Bergen Shopping Addiction Scale (BSAS) is a brief screening tool for assessing the severity of shopping addiction. [1]

Contents

Background

The Bergen Scale is named after the city of Bergen, Norway, the location of the University of Bergen, where lead author Cecilie Andreassen is a professor of clinical psychology. [2]

Format

The Bergen Shopping Addiction Scale (BSAS) consists of 28 statements. The participant is asked to rate how strongly each of the statements relates to their thoughts and behavior in the last 12 months. Each item is rated on a five-point continuum of agreement: completely disagree, disagree, neither disagree nor agree, agree, completely agree. Groups of four items are targeted toward each of seven addiction criteria (salience, mood modification, conflict, tolerance, withdrawal, relapse, and problems). [1]

Improvements

The BSAS offers several improvements over prior compulsive shopping assessments. [1] [3]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Andreassen, Cecilie; Griffiths, Mark; Pallesen, Ståle; Bilder, Robert; Torsheim, Torbjørn; Aboujaoude, Elias (2015-09-15). "The Bergen Shopping Addiction Scale: reliability and validity of a brief screening test". Frontiers in Psychology. 6: 1374. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01374 . PMC   4584995 . PMID   26441749.
  2. "Cecilie Schou Andreassen". Cecilie Schou Andreassen | University of Bergen. University of Bergen. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  3. Griffiths, Mark; Andreassen, Cecilie; Pallesen, Ståle; Bilder, Robert; Torsheim, Torbjørn; Aboujaoude, Elias (2016). "When Is a New Scale not a New Scale? The Case of the Bergen Shopping Addiction Scale and the Compulsive Online Shopping Scale". International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. 14 (6): 1107–1110. doi:10.1007/s11469-016-9711-1. PMC   5120053 . PMID   27942256.