Development of Sensation Seeking Scale for Japanese Adolescents

Sensation seeking in adolescents

Designing Prevention Programs for Sensation Seeking Adolescents

In their ancient past, humans learned to engage in the sometimes risky behavior of investigating novel objects in their environments, such as those that were possibly threatening or those which offered new sources of food or other reward, presumably as a means of survival. We call the propensity to seek out novelty, sensation seeking. Today, an emerging body of research from both the biological...

Sensation Seeking Scale: Indian Adaptation

Sensation seeking refers to a biologically based personality dimension defined as the need for varied, novel and complex sensations and experiences, and the willingness to take physical and social risks for the sake of such experiences. Although researched worldwide for nearly three decades now, there is to date no published Indian study utilizing the concept of sensation seeking. This paper de...

Circadian typology and sensation seeking in adolescents.

The relationship of circadian typology with personality has been largely studied in adults, but there are few studies exploring such relationship in adolescents. Adolescence has been associated with a greater tendency to eveningness preference, sleeping problems, poorer academic achievement, earlier substance use, or risky behaviors, and it is suggested that this association might be mediated b...

Brief Sensation Seeking Scale: Latent structure of 8-item and 4-item versions in Peruvian adolescents.

This research intended to validate two brief scales of sensations seeking with Peruvian adolescents: the eight item scale (BSSS8; Hoyle, Stephenson, Palmgreen, Lorch, y Donohew, 2002) and the four item scale (BSSS4; Stephenson, Hoyle, Slater, y Palmgreen, 2003). Questionnaires were administered to 618 voluntary participants, with an average age of 13.6 years, from different levels of high schoo...