Study Gorman (1971): study US 1970
- Public
- Undergraduate students, Nassau Community College, USA, 1970
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 67
- Non Response
- 4%, 3% refusal, 1% incomplete information
- Assessment
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Multiple assesment methods
Questionnaires administered in class and daily records kept at home during 28 days
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Sensation seeking
- Our Classification
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- Operationalization
- Index containing forced-choice ques-
tions in which one choice in each item pair mentions a more prosaic, subdued activity, while the other choice men-
tions a novel, sensual, or active beha- vior. The scale was scored for the num- ber of active choices.
(Sensation-Seeking Scale; see Zuckerman et al., 1964).