Choice Regret Scale

Schwartz, Barry, Ward, Andrew, Monterosso, John, Lyubomirsky, Sonja, White, Katherine, & Lehman, Darrin R. (2002). Maximizing versus satisficing: Happiness is a matter of choice. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 83(5), 1178-1197. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.83.5.1178

1. Whenever I make a choice, I’m curious about what would have happened if I had chosen differently.
2. Whenever I make a choice, I try to get information about how the other alternatives turned out.
3. If I make a choice and it turns out well, I still feel like something of a failure if I find out that another choice
4. would have turned out better.
5. When I think about how I’m doing in life, I often assess opportunities I have passed up.
6. Once I make a decision, I don’t look back. (R)