Arnett Inventory of Sensation Seeking.
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- What it measures
- sensation seeking; novelty; intensity
- Length and format
- 20 items. 4-point Likert (describes me very well to does not describe me at all); 2 subscales (Novelty, Intensity) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Translated into Spanish, French, Dutch, Chinese and other languages
- Normative data
- Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.
- Licence
- public-domain / open
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- Reference
- Arnett, J. (1994). Sensation seeking: A new conceptualization and a new scale. Personality and Individual Differences, 16(2), 289-296.
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