Arnett's Sensation Seeking Inventory

the Arnett’s Sensation Seeking Inventory (AISS, Arnett, 1994) was employed to assess sensation seeking in adolescents. The scale consists of two 10-item subscales (plus a Total Score): the Novelty Scale which assesses the openness to experience (e.g., ‘‘I would like to travel to places that are strange and far away’’); and the Intensity Scale which refers to the intensity of stimulation of the senses (e.g., ‘‘I like the feeling of standing next to the edge on a high place and looking down’’). For each item, respondents are asked to indicate, on a four-point scale, the extent to which the item describes them (1 = Describes me very well; 4=Does not describe me at all). Total score is derived by the sum of all items and could range from 20 to
80. Higher scores indicate higher levels of sensation seeking. For the present study, internal consistency coefficients