1 https://pierreonline.uk Intercontinental Social Science Journal (ISSJ) 2024:1 (1) ©Authors This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Development of Attention Seeking Scale Farwa Shafique 1 , Sajid Mehmood Alvi 2 , Naveed Gani 3 , Tahir Mehmood 4 , Huma Fatima 5 , Iqra Bukhari 6 , Rizwana Shabir 7 , Sehrish Irshad 8 Abstract The purpose of the study is to examine the effect of elements of attention seeking as internal focus, conceptualizing and centre of attention and the elements of narcissism as self-promotion, self-description, self- disclosed behaviour and to develop the attention seeking scale. The main instrument attention seeking was applied on 300 males and females from different areas of Pakistan, contained 32 items and its reliability is .97 and the other scale is Hyper sensitive narcissism scale contained 10 items and its reliability is also .79. The result showed the significant relationship between attention seeking and narcissism. The females has higher scores on attention seeking due to narcissism. These results showed that the females have much tendency of attention seeking behaviour and narcissism trait in their personality. These findings of the study supports the objective that more females have higher attention seeking behaviour. Keywords: attention seeking, behavior, narcissism, seeking scale Introduction Human behaviour is manifested and the prospective ability of individuals to react towards the situation depends on the mental, physical and social level. Environmental and genetically influenced factors determined the human behaviour. Thoughts and feeling may shed light on views and opinions and the 1 International Islamic University, Clinical & Educational Psychologist, Department of Psychology, Islamabad, farwa.msep309@iiu.edu.pk, 0009-0009-6039-3159 2 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Haripur University, sajidmalvi@yahoo.com 3 Associate Professor, Psychiatry, Islam Medical & Dental College, Sialkot. Naveedgani@gmail.com 4 Associate Professor, Paediatrics, Wah Medical College, Wah Canttt, Drtahirnoor@hotmail.com, 0009-0005-4500-103X 5 Clinical Psychologist, University of Punjab, Lahore, fatimahuma57@gmail.com, 0009-0006- 6618-6196 6 Clinical Psychologist, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Iqtra.bukhari77@gmail.com, 0009-0008-3386-7248 7 Clinical Psychologist, University of Punjab, Lahore, rizwna92@gmail.com, 8 Clinical Psychologist, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Sehrish@gmail.com, 0009-0006- 5441-1544