The German Version of the Arnett Inventory of Sensation Seeking (AISS): Psychometric Properties, Reliability and ValidityAbstract: In order to avoid the limitations inherent to the well known Sensation Seeking Scale - Form Five (SSS-V) by Zuckerman et ...
Zusammenfassung. In der vorliegenden Untersuchung wird der Frage nachgegangen, welchen Stellenwert das persönlichkeitspsychologische Konstrukt Sensation Seeking (SS) sowie gesundheitsbezogene Kognitionen (Risikowahrnehmung, Konsequenz- und ...
Zusammenfassung: Untersucht werden Zusammenhänge von Sensation Seeking und unfallbedingten Verletzungsausprägungen in der Risikosportart Kitesurfen. Die 335 online befragten Kitesurfer/innen weisen eine erhöhte Sensation Seeking-Ausprägung (Gesamt und ...
Abstract. A survey of 341 undergraduate students (118 males, 223 females) assessed five aggression-related personality characteristics and their relationships to the preference for violent media. Positive relationships were predicted for aggression, ...
Summary: This research studies the factor structure of the Karolinska Scales of Personality (KSP) and its location within Eysenck's three broad dimensions of personality: psychoticism, extraversion, and neuroticism. A series of factor analyses and ...
Abstract. The predisposition to take risk is a personality trait associated with dangerous or maladaptive behavior. Related to this, biomarkers associated with risk proneness such as low platelet monoamine oxidase (MAO) activity level are ...
Abstract. High-sensation seekers are prone to search for changing stimuli. Pre-attentive processes reveal the earliest cortical change detection in response to external stimulus changes. This study recorded the mismatch negativity (MMN) to ...
Summary: The present study examines the reliability (internal consistency) and the the factorial validity, as well as the construct validity and the criterion-oriented validity (criterion: Delinquent behavior) of the Arnett Inventory of Sensation Seeking (...
Based on the conception of sensation seeking as a need rather than a temperamental trait (Hammelstein, 2004), we present a new assessment method, the Need Inventory of Sensation Seeking (NISS), which is considered to assess a motivational disposition. ...
Abstract. Several inventories have been developed to measure sensation seeking (SS), and each of these inventories has been based on an individual theoretical concept of the construct. However, most studies assessing SS disregarded the ...
The primary aim of the present study was to examine the influence of facial piercings on observer ratings of physical attractiveness and intelligence. A total of 440 women and men rated a set of stimuli that depicted a female and a male model, ...
In 1994 Zuckerman proposed an impulsive and unsocialized form of sensation seeking. Studies considering physical risk seekers (prosocial and antisocial) associate this dimension with Eysenck’s psychoticism (P) and neuroticism (N), as well as with the ...
Individuals with body modifications, such as tattoos, have been shown to differ from nonmodified individuals in sensation-seeking personality characteristics and sociosexuality. This study examined possible differences in peoples attributions of those ...
We examined individual performance on an embedded figures test, in two separate studies. Performance measures were both the number (m) of hits (H) and the number of false alarms (FA), and their respective reaction times (RT). Using these measures, we ...
Perception of risk to a stimulus associated with negative affect may depend on the level of emotional arousal it elicits. Sensation seeking is associated with a decreased level of arousal to risk stimuli. Individuals high in sensation seeking may require ...
Abstract. Many psychology researches are performed through “psychology subject pools” which give participants considerable flexibility when they participate. This “participant degree-of-freedom” has led to concern that the characteristics of subject pool ...
Abstract. Swearing is stereotypically associated with socially undesirable traits and behaviors, including limited verbal ability, disagreeable personality, and alcohol use. We sought to demonstrate that, contrary to such stereotypes, ...
This study demonstrates the significance of individual difference factors, particularly gender and sensation seeking, in predicting media choice (examined through hypothetical descriptions of films that participants anticipated they would view). This ...
A television-use questionnaire was completed by undergraduate college students (N = 773). Based on results from the television-use survey, respondents’ popular television programs (33 shows) were content-analyzed for amounts of verbal aggression. A ...