Brief Sensation Seeking Scale (BSSS-8)
Psychology: PersonalityReliability: alpha 0.763 sample items
About this scale
An 8-item measure of sensation seeking across four facets: experience seeking, boredom susceptibility, thrill and adventure seeking, and disinhibition.
Sample item(s)
“I would like to explore strange places”
“I would like to take off on a trip with no preplanned routes or timetables”
“I prefer friends who are excitingly unpredictable”
Reliability
Reported internal consistency: alpha 0.76. As a rule of thumb, Cronbach’s α ≥ .70 is considered acceptable, ≥ .80 good, and ≥ .90 excellent for established measures.
Notes
Free for academic use.
Source & citation
Hoyle, R. H., Stephenson, M. T., Palmgreen, P., Lorch, E. P., & Donohew, R. L. (2002): Reliability and validity of a brief measure of sensation seeking. Personality and Individual Differences, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 401–414.
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