Measurement Instrument Database for the Social Sciences

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Welcome to the Measurement Instrument Database for the Social Sciences (MIDSS). The site is designed to be a repository for instruments that are used to collect data from across the social sciences. Please use the site to discover instruments you can use in you own research.

We now have more than 400 instruments concerned with a wide range of topics (e.g. autism, health, pain). You can use the search function above to search the database using pre-identified key words, or generate your own terms to search the instrument titles.

We are currently in a growth phase and don’t have staff dedicated to actively trawl the internet and scientific literature to find instruments for MIDSS. Rather, we rely on you to submit instruments that you have developed using a Wiki-type model.

Please consider submitting any instruments that you have developed. It is relatively painless and will only take a few minutes. There is no requirement to register or create a password.  By adding your instruments to this database you are making them available for colleagues to use, thus sharing knowledge.  If your instrument is available for others to use, you are likely to benefit from this in the form of citations to your instrument and to your own published worked relating to it.

 

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Editor's Selection

The Maximizing Scale and The Regret Scale

As the number of options available to a person increases so too does the burden of choice. For individuals identified as maximizers, added options pose problems as the individual must consider each and attempt to determine which would lead to the best outcome. When a selection is made, maximizers often feel doubt or a lingering regret.

Author of Tool: 
Schwartz, B., Ward, A., Monterosso, J., Lyubomirsky, S., White, K., & Lehman, D. R.

Students' Life Satisfaction Scale

The Students' Life Satisfaction Scale is a brief, 7 item, measure of life satisfaction in children. It is designed for use with children as young as 8 years of age.

Author of Tool: 
Huebner, E. S.

Behavioral Activation for Depression Scale (BADS) (Long and Short Form)

The Behavioral Activation for Depression Scale (BADS) can be used to track changes weekly in the behaviors hypothesized to underlie depression and specifically targeted for change by behavioral activation. It examines changes in the following areas: activation, avoidance/rumination, work/school impairment, and social impairment. The BADS consists of 25 questions, each rated on a seven point scale ranging from 0 (not at all) to 6 (completely). The short-form BADS consists of 9 items rated using the same scale as the long-form.

Author of Tool: 
Kanter, J. W., Mulick, P. S., Busch, A. M., Berlin, K. S., & Martell, C. R.

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You can add your own Instrument to the MIDSS.

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This project is supported by:
the Irish Social Sciences Platform (ISSP), which is funded under the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions (Cycle 4),
administered by the HEA and co-funded under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).