TY - JOUR
T1 - Reducing the Administrative Demands of the Science Curiosity Scale
T2 - A Validation Study
AU - Motta, Matthew
AU - Chapman, Dan
AU - Haglin, Kathryn
AU - Kahan, Dan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The World Association for Public Opinion Research. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/12/16
Y1 - 2019/12/16
N2 - Science curious people - those who enjoy consuming science-related information - are less likely to hold politically polarized views about contentious science. Consequently, science curiosity is of great interest to scholars across the social sciences. However, measuring science curiosity via the science curiosity scale (SCS) is time intensive; potentially impeding its widespread usage. We present two new methods for reducing SCS administration time. One method presents respondents with a randomly selected subset of items ("Random Subset [RS] Method"). The other asks all respondents a core set of just four items ("Reduced-Form Method;"RF). In three nationally representative surveys, we assess the construct, convergent, and predictive validity of these alternatives. We find both versions to be well validated.
AB - Science curious people - those who enjoy consuming science-related information - are less likely to hold politically polarized views about contentious science. Consequently, science curiosity is of great interest to scholars across the social sciences. However, measuring science curiosity via the science curiosity scale (SCS) is time intensive; potentially impeding its widespread usage. We present two new methods for reducing SCS administration time. One method presents respondents with a randomly selected subset of items ("Random Subset [RS] Method"). The other asks all respondents a core set of just four items ("Reduced-Form Method;"RF). In three nationally representative surveys, we assess the construct, convergent, and predictive validity of these alternatives. We find both versions to be well validated.
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U2 - 10.1093/ijpor/edz049
DO - 10.1093/ijpor/edz049
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85089248230
VL - 33
SP - 215
EP - 233
JO - International Journal of Public Opinion Research
JF - International Journal of Public Opinion Research
SN - 0954-2892
IS - 2
ER -