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This self-assessment Bergen Shopping Addiction Scale (BSAS) , was originally developed by Andreassen C. S., Griffiths M. D., Pallesen S., Bilder R. M., Torsheim T., and Aboujaoude E. . TraitProfiler provides an interactive digital version for educational, informational, and self-exploration purposes only.

Bergen Shopping Addiction Scale (BSAS)

Background

The Bergen Shopping Addiction Scale (BSAS) is a psychological questionnaire used to measure unhealthy shopping and buying habits.

The assessment looks at how often a person thinks about shopping, shops to feel better, loses control over buying, or experiences problems because of shopping habits.

The BSAS is commonly used in behavioral health research and addiction studies because it provides a reliable way to understand compulsive shopping behavior.

Higher scores may suggest emotional buying, strong shopping urges, poor control over spending, or problems in relationships, work, or daily life caused by shopping.

Procedure

You will be presented with 28 statements about shopping and buying behavior.

Read each statement carefully and choose the response that best matches your usual thoughts, feelings, and behavior.

Please answer honestly based on your real shopping experiences and habits.

Participation

This assessment is intended for adults and older adolescents who are able to understand and answer questions about their shopping behavior and emotions.

Participation is voluntary. Responses are anonymous and intended for educational, self-awareness, and research-related purposes only.

Higher scores may reflect compulsive shopping behavior, emotional dependence on shopping, difficulty controlling purchases, or shopping-related problems in daily life.

Bergen Shopping Addiction Scale (BSAS) Questionnaire

Instructions & Terms

Below is the Bergen Shopping Addiction Scale (BSAS), a digitally adapted 28- items self-assessment questionnaire. This assessment does not provide a clinical diagnosis, medical determination, or substitute for professional psychological evaluation. Anonymous responses may be included in research statistics and normative datasets.



Psychometric Norms

6
Participants
70%
Community Mean
24.8%
Sample SD
97%
Highest Observed Score
20%
Lowest Observed Score
2026–2026
Collection Period

All response data are collected anonymously through Shopping Addiction Test - Bergen Shopping Addiction Scale (BSAS) and are intended exclusively for educational, psychometric, and non-commercial research purposes. Privacy Policy | Research Statistics

Sources
  1. Andreassen C. S. et al. Frontiers in Psychology (2015). "The Bergen Shopping Addiction Scale: Reliability and validity of a brief screening test."