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Scale of Impulse Control of Ramos y Cajal
Dimension: Risk factors start consumption
Area
Personal
Specificity
Unspecified: Legal and illegal drugs
Year
2002
Author
Ramos, Gutiérrez-Zotes, & Sáiz
Identification and Classification
- Instrument
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Scale of Impulse Control of Ramos y Cajal
- Acronym
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ECIRyC
- Area
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Personal
- Dimension
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Risk factors start consumption
- Specificity
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Unspecified: Legal and illegal drugs
- Objective
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Measure the capacity to control impulses
- Factors it measures
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- Impulsiveness
- Immediateness
- Imposition
- Risk
- Year
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2002
- Author
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Ramos, Gutiérrez-Zotes, & Sáiz
- Author Contact Data
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Ramos, Jesús
Servicio de Psiquiatría Hospital Ramón y Cajal. Ctra. de Colmenar. Km 9, 100, 28034, Madrid (España)
jramosb.hrc@salud.madrid.org
- Availability
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Free
- Link
Description
- Abstract
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ECIRyC is an instrument for measuring the self-control of impulses, using the characteristic features of this personality dimension as study factors. For this purpose, 20 items are used with a Likert type response format with four response options
- Psychometric characteristics
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Reliability indices remain high from their original version (α: .82) until after debugging is completed (α: .85), and also shows high indices establishing differentiations by sex (α: .85 women and α:. 83 men). These values categorized as medium / high exceed those of other instruments for evaluating similar constructs in terms of impulsivity measures. In turn, the construct validity also has a high score (53.2%), as well as concurrent validity, based on the correlations found with other measures of impulsivity
- No. of items
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It consists of 20 items that are graduated on a Likert scale with four answer options ranging from 'always' to 'never'
- Duration
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10 min
- Way of administration
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- Individual and collective
- Paper
- Way of qualification
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High scores evidence the presence of impulsivity traits in the subject
- Application context
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Clinic / School
- Population
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Adolescents and adults
- References
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Ramos, J. A., Gutiérrez-Zotes, A., & Sáiz, J. (2002). Escala de Control de los Impulsos «Ramón y Cajal» (ECIRyC). Desarrollo, validación y baremación. Actas Españolas de Psiquiatría, 30, 160-174.