Self-Report Passion in Students – An Attempt to Measure

Abstract

The paper presents an innovative tool for measuring the subjective perception of passion and its main characteristics - Self-Report Passion Inventory (SRPI). SRPI is based on the definition of passion as strong inclination toward an activity that people like (or even love), that they find important, and in which they invest considerable time and energy. SRPI consists of 18 itemów and includes two parts, the first one is used to qualitatively characterize the subject's passionate activity, the second one is used to analyze passion in three dimensions: personal benefits of passion, origin of passion, balancing passion with life. SRPI has been verified in terms of psychometrics: internal structure, reliability and validity. The results obtained are satisfactory. The SRPI is designed to measure adults' perceptions of passion.