Multiple Stimulus Types Ambiguity Tolerance Scale.
MSTAT-I / MSTAT-II
- What it measures
- tolerance of ambiguity; tolerance of uncertainty; openness to complex/novel/insoluble stimuli
- Length and format
- 22 items. 7-point Likert (strongly disagree to strongly agree) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Validated in German and other languages
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- public-domain / open
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- Reference
- McLain, D. L. (1993). The MSTAT-I: A new measure of an individual's tolerance for ambiguity. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 53(1), 183-189.
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