Marvin Zuckerman's Work on Dimensions of Sensation Seeking Reveals Four

question 15

Multiple Choice

Marvin Zuckerman's work on dimensions of sensation seeking reveals four dimensions to this trait: (1) thrill and adventure seeking susceptibility to boredom (e.g., being easily bored by predictable experiences and people) . These dimensions are theoretically independent. A researcher was interested in designing a new questionnaire to measure sensation seeking. A 16-item questionnaire using a 5-point Likert scale (1 = strongly disagree, 2 = disagree, 3 = neither, 4 = agree, 5 = strongly agree) was devised and given to 750 people. Based on the SPSS output below, what could you conclude?
Based on the SPSS Output below, that relates to the analysis of the sensation-seeking questionnaire, what could you conclude?

• A)The analysis has been conducted on an adequately sized sample.
• B)The analysis has not been conducted on an adequately sized sample.
• C)It's unclear whether the sample size is adequate but there is significant multicollinearity in the data.
• D)There is singularity in the data.

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