Body State (Feeling of Confinement)

What it measures

A three-item Likert-type scale designed to measure the extent to which a person reports having experienced feelings of constraint and delimitation in a certain situation.

Response format

7-point scale

Scale items

• sense of being encumbered
• sense of being inhibited
• sense of being confined
• This scale stem was recreated here based upon the loose description provided by Meyers- Levy and Zhu (2007).

Full scale items shown. Always cite the original source when using this scale in research.

Usage notes & scoring

Internal consistency (alpha = .84) was reported in the primary study. Formal validity assessment was not reported by the original authors.

Citation

Meyers-Levy, Joan and Rui (Juliet) Zhu (2007), “The Influence of Ceiling Height: The Effect of Priming on the Type of Processing That People Use,” Journal of Consumer Research, 34 (2), 174-186.

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