A Danish version of the Sensation Seeking Scale and its relation to a broad spectrum of behavioral and psychological characteristics

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1371-1386

  Ripa, Caroline P L ^a   Hansen, Henrik Skovdahl ^a,b   Mortensen, Erik Lykke ^a   Sanders, Stephanie A ^c   Reinisch, June MacHover ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Danish Psychological Publishers   (Denmark)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Construct validity; Cross cultural comparison; Gender differences; Intelligence; Personality; Sensation seeking; SES; Sexuality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001455571     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00119-7     Document Type: Article

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