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Striving to Avoid Inferiority Scale (SAIS)

Original Version

Gilbert, P., Broomhead, C., Irons, C., McEwan, K., Bellew, R., Mills, A., Gale, C., & Knibb, R. (2007)

Portuguese Version

Ferreira, C., Duarte, C., & Pinto-Gouveia, J. (2011)

General Description

The Striving to Avoid Inferiority Scale (SAIS) assesses beliefs about the need to compete or struggle to avoid inferiority. SAIS comprised three scales: SAIS part one (32 items) that assesses beliefs about the need to compete to avoid feeling inferior in a two-factor structure (insecure striving and secure non-striving); SAIS part two (11 items) that aims to assess the motivations and/or needs by which people feel under pressure to compete and avoid inferiority; SAIS part three (10 items) that evaluates attitudes towards competition (avoidance/fear of competition and demand/satisfaction withdrawn from the competition. SAIS revealed good psychometric properties in the original and Portuguese version.

References

  • Ferreira, C., Duarte, C., & Pinto-Gouveia, J. (2011). A necessidade de competir para evitar a inferioridade: Estudos de validação da versão portuguesa da SAIS. Psychologica, 54, 5-34. doi:10.14195/1647-8606_54_1 http://hdl.handle.net/10316/46801

  • Gilbert, P., Broomhead, C., Irons, C., McEwan, K., Bellew, R., Mills, A., Gale, C., & Knibb, R. (2007). Development of a striving to avoid inferiority scale. British Journal of Social Psychology, 46, 633-648. doi:10.1348/014466606X157789

Contacts

Cláudia Ferreira – claudiaferreira@fpce.uc.pt