The scale assesses feelings of anxiety and worry driven by unpredictability in one's surroundings, capturing environmental unpredictability as a potential everyday source of stress.
7-point Likert (1=strongly disagree, 7=strongly agree)
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Source not stated by Mittal, Griskevicius, and Haws (2020), who appear to have created the scale themselves; used with Texas A&M students in a Study 1 pretest and a Study 2 post-test. Reliability was consistently good (α = .88) across both. Validity wasn't formally discussed, though successful use as a manipulation check in both studies offers some indirect support.
Mittal, Chiraag, Vladas Griskevicius, and Kelly L. Haws (2020), "From Cradle to Grave: How Childhood and Current Environments Impact Consumers’ Subjective Life Expectancy and Decision-Making," Journal of Consumer Research, 47 (3), 350–372.
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