Sensation-Seeking: Dangerous thrill-seeking
Sensation-Seeking: Dangerous thrill-seeking uses 10 International Personality Item Pool statements to assess Sensation-Seeking: Dangerous thrill-seeking. Respondents complete 10 items using 1–5 ratings. Keyed responses are summed for the reported scale score.
At a glance
What it measures
Sensation-Seeking: Dangerous thrill-seeking is administered here as one of the International Personality Item Pool's single-construct scales: original public-domain items catalogued at ipip.ori.org (Goldberg, 1999) and keyed to one specific individual-differences construct, rather than belonging to a broad multi-factor inventory. This form presents 10 items rated on a 5-point scale; responses are summed in the keyed direction after any reverse-worded items are recoded.
The construct label and item membership follow the IPIP catalog directly. Because this exact public-domain item set is what is administered, the standings shown in the norms section are computed on this form itself (see the cited reference-sample note), not borrowed from any other instrument.
Psychometric properties
The notes below are reproduced from the platform's psychometrics register for this instrument — the same source-cited reliability, validity, and norms text that accompanies its downloadable report.
IPIP-based dangerous thrill-seeking subscale; reliability estimates for this exact 10-item public-domain operationalization are not available from a single published validation study.
Dangerous thrill-seeking — preference for physically risky activities — is a core component of Zuckerman's (1994) sensation-seeking construct, validated across risk behavior, substance use, and personality research.
Scores are expressed as percent-of-maximum on the 1–5 accuracy scale using Higher/Average/Lower bands. No published normative tables exist for this specific IPIP operationalization.
Example item
“Love dangerous situations.”
Illustrative only. During administration items are presented one screen-set at a time; response-key direction is never shown to respondents.
Scoring & interpretation
Item responses are summed within each scale (reverse-keyed items recoded first) and expressed as a percent of the maximum possible score. No normative percentile is applied — there is no verbatim-matched published norm for this exact item set.
Source & citation
International Personality Item Pool (ipip.ori.org).
References
- Zuckerman, M. (1994). Behavioral expressions and biosocial bases of sensation seeking. Cambridge University Press.
- Goldberg, L. R. (1999). A broad-bandwidth, public domain, personality inventory. Personality Psychology in Europe, 7, 7-28.