This three-item scale measures how much a person, or their family and friends, have experienced hunger or worry about running out of food. Vieites, Goldszmidt, and Andrade (2022) used it in a pretest of 100 Rio de Janeiro residents, drawn from both a wealthy area and a densely populated low-income area, before the main studies of their research on how social class shapes donation preferences. No source was given for the scale.
5-point Likert-type (1 = totally disagree, 5 = totally agree)
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Alpha was .96 (Vieites, Goldszmidt, and Andrade 2022, p. 779). Validity was not discussed. The questionnaire was administered in Portuguese; the items are the authors' English translation, and the anchors shown are translations (web appendix, p. 3). Item 2 reads awkwardly in English; replacing 'what' with a word such as 'enough' is worth considering before use. See also Scarcity of Safety (ID 90532), from the same pretest, and Perceived Personal Resource Scarcity Scale (ID 675).
Vieites, Yan, Rafael Goldszmidt, and Eduardo B. Andrade (2022), "Social Class Shapes Donation Allocation Preferences," Journal of Consumer Research, 48 (5), 775-795.
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