Relationship between the sensation seeking scale and a biographical inventory designed to predict risk-taking behavior

One hundred and five students were administered both Zuckerman's Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS) and the Torrance-Ziller biographical inventory (BI) for measuring risk-taking tendencies. Correlations between the BI and selected subscales on the SSS were positive and significant. However, the prop...

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Published inPersonality and individual differences Vol. 6; no. 1; pp. 121 - 122
Main Authors Himelstein, Philip, Thorne, Stephen B.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Elsevier Ltd 1985
Elsevier
Subjects
Biological and medical sciences
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Personality. Affectivity
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Psychometrics
Human
Sensation Seeking Scale Zuckerman
Test validation
Personality test
Psychometrics
Behavior
Risk taking
Comparative study
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Summary:One hundred and five students were administered both Zuckerman's Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS) and the Torrance-Ziller biographical inventory (BI) for measuring risk-taking tendencies. Correlations between the BI and selected subscales on the SSS were positive and significant. However, the proportion of explained variance does not suggest that the SSS and the BI are tapping the same dimension.
ISSN:0191-8869
1873-3549
DOI:10.1016/0191-8869(85)90037-6