The Bergen Shopping Addiction Scale (BSAS) is a brief screening tool for assessing the severity of shopping addiction.
[2] The Bergen Shopping Addiction Scale (BSAS) consists of 28 statements.
The participant is asked to rate how strongly each of the statements relates to their thoughts and behavior in the last 12 months.
Groups of four items are targeted toward each of seven addiction criteria (salience, mood modification, conflict, tolerance, withdrawal, relapse, and problems).
[1] The BSAS offers several improvements over prior compulsive shopping assessments.