The scale is composed of six, seven-point Likert-type statements that are intended to measure the degree to which a person is worried about his/her close personal relationships with other individuals such that growing closer to them will lead to them drawing away. The scale was called developmental insecurity by Rindfleisch, Burroughs, and Wong (2009).
The Marketing Scales Handbook is indispensible in identifying how constructs have been measured and the support for a measure's validity and reliability. I have used it since the beginning as a resource in my doctoral seminar and as an aid to my own research. An electronic version will make it even more accessible to researchers in Marketing and affiliated fields.
