Schmidt Vanina, Molina María Fernanda, Raimundi María Julia
National Council of Scientific and Technique Research (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Research Institute, Faculty of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Eur J Psychol. 2017 Nov 30;13(4):776-793. doi: 10.5964/ejop.v13i4.1198. eCollection 2017 Nov.
Sensation Seeking is a trait defined by the seeking of varied, novel, complex, and intense situations and experiences, and the willingness to take physical, social, and financial risks for the sake of such experience. The Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS-V) is the most widely used measure to assess this construct. In previous studies a variety of psychometric limitations were found when using the SSS-V with Latin American population. The purpose of this study is to present additional psychometric properties for its use with Latin American adolescents. It was applied to a 506 adolescent sample (from 12 to 20 years). The result is a scale of 22 items that cover four factors. It seems that sensation seeking among Latin American adolescents can be described in terms of four factors, but with some slightly content differences from what is usually found in adult samples from other countries. Future lines of research are proposed.
寻求刺激是一种特质，其定义为寻求多样、新奇、复杂和强烈的情境与体验，以及为了这种体验愿意承担身体、社交和经济风险。寻求刺激量表（SSS-V）是评估这一构念最广泛使用的测量工具。在之前的研究中，当在拉丁美洲人群中使用SSS-V时发现了各种心理测量学上的局限性。本研究的目的是呈现其在拉丁美洲青少年中使用时的额外心理测量学特性。它被应用于一个506名青少年的样本（年龄在12至20岁之间）。结果得到了一个包含22个项目、涵盖四个因素的量表。拉丁美洲青少年的寻求刺激似乎可以用四个因素来描述，但在内容上与其他国家成年样本中通常发现的情况略有不同。本文还提出了未来的研究方向。
