Gaarde Maria Beck, Gerlach Christian
Department of Psychology, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense, Denmark.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2025 Mar 9;15(3):334. doi: 10.3390/bs15030334.
The Santa Barbara Sense of Direction scale (SBSoD) is a self-report scale that assesses the ability to orient oneself in the environment. With the current study, we validated the Danish version of the SBSoD (SBSoDDK) and compared performance on the SBSoD across samples with different nationalities. We collected data for a Danish sample consisting of 119 Danish university students and received data from studies validating other versions of the SBSoD using American, German, Japanese, Chinese, Turkish, and British samples. The internal consistency and convergent and discriminant validity of the SBSoDDK, which exhibited a two-factor structure, were affirmed, and differences in performance on the SBSoD across samples with different nationalities were identified and may be linked to cultural variations in the sense of direction. The current study has certain weaknesses, including using nationality as a proxy for culture and variations in the gender compositions of the samples. Future studies should focus on addressing the current study's weaknesses and revising and further validating the SBSoD.
圣巴巴拉方向感量表（SBSoD）是一种自我报告量表，用于评估个体在环境中定向自己的能力。在本研究中，我们验证了丹麦语版的SBSoD（SBSoDDK），并比较了不同国籍样本在SBSoD上的表现。我们收集了由119名丹麦大学生组成的丹麦样本的数据，并从使用美国、德国、日本、中国、土耳其和英国样本验证SBSoD其他版本的研究中获取了数据。具有双因素结构的SBSoDDK的内部一致性、收敛效度和区分效度得到了肯定，并且确定了不同国籍样本在SBSoD上表现的差异，这些差异可能与方向感的文化差异有关。本研究存在一定的局限性，包括将国籍作为文化的替代指标以及样本性别构成的差异。未来的研究应专注于解决本研究的局限性，并对SBSoD进行修订和进一步验证。
