Debasish Basu, Department of Psychiatry, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (IKJIMER), Chandigarh - 160 012.
Indian J Psychiatry. 1993 Jul;35(3):155-8.
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 describes adaptation of the Sensation Seeking Scale for the Indian population. After due modification of the scale, its reliability, internal consistency and discriminant validity were established Norms were developed for a defined segment of general population. This study may be seen as the beginning of research in India on the subject of sensation seeking.
寻求刺激是指一种基于生物学的人格维度，定义为对多样化、新颖和复杂的感觉和体验的需求，以及为了这种体验愿意承担身体和社会风险。尽管近三十年来在全球范围内进行了研究，但迄今为止，印度还没有利用寻求刺激的概念进行的研究。本文描述了对印度人群使用寻求刺激量表的改编。在对量表进行适当修改后，确定了其信度、内部一致性和判别有效性。为特定的一般人群部分制定了规范。这项研究可以被视为印度在寻求刺激这一主题上研究的开始。
