Relationship between the sensation seeking scale and a biographical inventory designed to predict risk-taking behavior
Personality and Individual DifferencesPublished 1 January 1985
Philip Himelstein, Stephen B. Thorne
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One hundred and five students were administered both Zuckerman's Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS) and the Torrance-Ziller biographical inventory (BI) for measuring risk-taking tendencies. Correlations between the BI and selected subscales on the SSS were positive and significant. However, the proportion of explained variance does not suggest that the SSS and the BI are tapping the same dimension.
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