Thomas D A
American University.
J Pers Assess. 1989 Winter;53(4):790-801. doi: 10.1207/s15327752jpa5304_15.
The sensation-seeking motive was first operationalized by Zuckerman, Kolin, Price, and Zoob (1964) with the development of the Sensation-Seeking Scale (SSS). One area of applied research in which the SSS has been used is the study of volunteering. In this area, evidence suggests that high-sensation seekers volunteer for exciting activities more often than low-sensation seekers, but not for unexciting activities. However, a problem with this research is that no empirical data has been obtained related to the subject's belief of the exciting nature of the activities. In this study, college students were given the most recent form of the SSS and were asked to volunteer for either or both of two studies. SSS scores were higher, p less than .05, for volunteers than for nonvolunteers for a study that subjects rated as exciting, but did not differ for a study that subjects rated as unexciting. This demonstrates that volunteers for exciting studies, but not volunteers for unexciting studies, tend to be higher sensation seekers than nonvolunteers.
寻求刺激动机最初由朱克曼、科林、普赖斯和佐布（1964年）通过编制寻求刺激量表（SSS）进行操作化定义。SSS被应用于研究的一个领域是志愿服务研究。在这一领域，有证据表明，高寻求刺激者比低寻求刺激者更常自愿参与刺激的活动，但不会自愿参与不刺激的活动。然而，这项研究存在一个问题，即尚未获得与受试者对活动刺激性质的信念相关的实证数据。在本研究中，大学生接受了最新版的SSS，并被要求自愿参与两项研究中的一项或两项。对于一项受试者认为刺激的研究，志愿者的SSS得分更高，p值小于0.05，而对于一项受试者认为不刺激的研究，志愿者和非志愿者的得分没有差异。这表明，参与刺激研究的志愿者，而非参与不刺激研究的志愿者，往往比非志愿者更倾向于高寻求刺激。
