This is a three-item, seven-point, Likert-type measure of the lack of time a person reports having given the things he/she generally has to do. The construct was referred to as costs of search by Srinivasan and Ratchford (1991) because of the reasoning that if a person is very busy, time for external search will be in short supply.
This four-item, five-point, Likert-type scale is intended to measure the degree to which a person engages in multiple activities simultaneously. This behavior is referred to as polychronic time use. The statements in the scale are general and not activity specific.
This is a three-item, seven-point scale measuring the relative amount of time a person spends on achieving a healthy balance between stress and work on the one hand and rest and relaxation on the other.
A person's negative emotional concern and uneasiness about something is measured in this scale with three uni-polar items.
The scale is composed of five, five-point items that are intended to measure the degree to which one believes that stress has been experienced for many years in one's life due to enduring problems in the roles played at work and/or at home.
A person's belief that smoking has a calming effect on him/her is measured in this scale with three statements and a seven-point Likert-like response format.
The scale uses Likert-type statements to measure the degree to which a person expresses doubts about a service or good, particularly its outcomes. The version of the scale used by Cox and Cox (2001) had five, five-point items while the version used by Cox, Cox, and Zimet (2006) had four items and a seven-point response format.
Three, seven-point Likert-type statements are used to measure the degree to which a consumer expresses a tendency to shop because of its therapeutic value, especially when stressed or in a bad mood.
Four semantic differentials with a seven-point response format are used to measure a person's emotional reaction being characterized by feelings of worry and anxiety.
The scale has ten, five-point statements that are used to measure how a person reports being affected by various stressful events within his or her pre-adult life, particularly involving the respondent's family.
