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The Post-Apocalyptic and Doomsday Prepping Beliefs Scale (PAPBS)

NS Nina Smith
ST Susan Jennifer Thomas
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The PAPBS is a 12-item questionnaire designed by Fetterman et al. (2019) to measure people's attitudes and beliefs about the post-apocalyptic world and prepping. Each item contains a statement that is rated on a 5-point Likert scale from completely disagree (1) to completely agree (5). The themes of Humanity and resource concerns, Competitive survival, and Belief in the need to prep serve as the three subscales for the questionnaire.

The PAPBS has been established to have good internal consistency yielding Cronbach's alphas ranging from 0.71 to 0.88 across studies (Fetterman et al., 2019).

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