Analysis of Three Stimulation-Seeking Scales
- 1 December 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 21 (3) , 853-856
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1967.21.3.853
Abstract
3 measures of stimulation seeking were administered to 128 pre-freshman students and 97 general psychology students. Normative data were provided and compared with previous data. Significantly higher means and correlations among scales were obtained for the general psychology students than for the pre-freshman students. It is possible that the Sensation-seeking Scale (SSS) tends to measure more variable characteristics than SVS or CSI. However, it is equally possible that these differences may be due to lack of reliability of the SSS or the insensitivity of the other two to change. Which of the possibilities may be or is the case is not evident from these data.Keywords
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