This study aimed to describe the construction and initial psychometric studies of a Impulsivity Assessment Scale. For that three studies were performed with three different samples of students from a public safety technical course at Minas Gerais State. In all cases, the internal structure analysis revealed the existence of four factors. The names for the factors given were "Lack of concentration and persistence", "Cognitive control", "Planning ahead" and "Recklessness and audacity". The analysis of accuracy by Cronbach's alpha coefficients showed satisfactory performance. The survey results concluded that the initial objectives of the study were achieved by building the Impulsivity Assessment Scale (EsAvI) which can be applied both in form A and in the form B (EsAvI-A and EsAvI-B respectively).
Impulsivity; Psychological tests; Psychological assessment; Psychometric
