A 65-item questionnaire was developed and administered to 56 undergraduate students for the purpose of comparing written responses to the usual oral responses necessary for scoring the Environmental Deprivation Scale. Scores based on responses to the questionnaire correlated with those obtained from the standard interview procedure (r = .78, p <.001). Percent agreement for two raters scoring the questionnaire was high (r = .85, p <.001). Advantages of obtaining responses with the questionnaire are discussed.
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