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Correlational findings

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
Multiple assesment methods
Questionnaires administered in class and daily records kept at home during 28 days

Correlate

Authors's Label
Sensation seeking
Our Classification
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).

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks A-ARE-md-sqr-v-10-b r = +.28 p < .05 C-BW-c-sq-l-11-b r = +.18 ns