Epistemic Curiosity Scale.
ECS
- What it measures
- epistemic curiosity; interest-type (I) curiosity; deprivation-type (D) curiosity
- Length and format
- 10 items. 4-point Likert; 2 subscales x 5 items (Interest-type, Deprivation-type) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Validated in German, Chinese, Korean, Italian 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
- Litman, J. A. (2008). Interest- and deprivation-factors of epistemic curiosity. Personality and Individual Differences, 44(7), 1585-1595.
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