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Sensation-Seeking Scale (Escala de Búsqueda de Sensaciones)
Dimension: Risk factors start consumption
Area
Personal
Specificity
Unspecified: Legal and illegal drugs
Year
1978
Author
Zuckerman, Eysenck, & Eysenck
Identification and Classification
- Instrument
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Sensation-Seeking Scale (Escala de Búsqueda de Sensaciones)
- Acronym
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SSS
- Area
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Personal
- Dimension
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Risk factors start consumption
- Specificity
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Unspecified: Legal and illegal drugs
- Objective
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Evaluate personality traits related to the search for emotions and adventures, search for experiences, disinhibition and susceptibility to boredom
- Factors it measures
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- Search of emotions and adventures
- Search for experiences
- Disinhibition
- Susceptibility to boredom
- Year
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1978
- Author
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Zuckerman, Eysenck, & Eysenck
- Author Contact Data
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Emérito
- Availability
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Free
- Link
Versions
Year
1986
Validation Country
Spain
Author
Pérez & Torrubia
Author Contact Data
Pérez, Jorge.
Departamento de Psicología Médica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra (España)
References
Pérez, J., & Torrubia, R. (1986). Fiabilidad y validez de la versión española de la Escala de Búsqueda de Sensaciones (Forma V). Revista Latinoamericana de Psicología, 18, 7-22.
Year
2015
Validation Country
Mexico
Author
Palacios
Author Contact Data
Palacios, J. Raúl.
Centro de Investigación e Innovación Biopsicosocial AC, José J. Reynoso, 135, Colonia Constitución de 1917, Delegación Iztapalapa, México.
E-mail: jpalacios@ciib.org.mx
References
Palacios, J. R. (2015). Propiedades psicométricas del inventario de búsqueda de sensaciones para adolescentes en México (IBS-Mx). International Journal of Psychological Research, 8, 46-60.
Description
- Abstract
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SSS evaluates the sensational search feature understood as the need to experience new sensations and adventures, as well as the immediate reward and desire to be exposed through a total of 40 items of dichotomous response
- Psychometric characteristics
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Reliability:
Total scale: best alpha coefficient.
Four subscales: BEM, DES, BEX and SAB ordered from highest to lowest reliability. Although the reliability of the EBS decreases slightly with time (coefficients between .70 and .87 in the subscales and superiors to .87 in the total scale)
Validity:
The SAB subscale correlates weakly with the BEM (males) and the BEX (females) and does not represent correlation with the BEX (males) nor with the BEM (females). The SAB subscale shows slight-null correlations with other subscales of other studies - No. of items
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The questionnaire consists of 40 items that are answered in a forced choice scale: dichotomous yes / no
- Duration
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10-20 min
- Way of administration
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- Individual and collective
- Paper
- Way of qualification
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The items are grouped into four scales of 10 items. For the correction, each affirmative answer is rated as a 1 and negatives as 0. Thus, a total score is obtained from the sum of the scores and a value for each scale.
- Application context
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Clinic / School
- Population
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Adolescents and adults
- References
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Zuckerman, M., Eysenck, S. B. J., & Eysenck, H. J. (1978). Sensation seeking in England and America: Cross-cultural, age, and sex comparisons. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 46, 139-149.