The Latent Structure of Trait Curiosity: Evidence for Interest and Deprivation Curiosity Dimensions

By Jordan Litman, Paul J Silvia. 2006

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Are the sources of interest the same for everyone? Using multilevel mixture models to explore individual differences in appraisal structures (2009, background): “These four curiosity scales capture different aspects of curiosity, but they correlate highly and tap the same latent construct (eg, Litman & Silvia, 2006 ).”
Curiosity and Interest: The Benefits of Thriving on Novelty and Challenge (2009, background): “These two factors emerge as distinct (although highly related) latent factors in correlational research (Litman & Silvia, 2006).”
Curiosity and pathways to well-being and meaning in life: Traits, states, and everyday behaviors (2007, background): “Construct validity has been shown in several factor-analytic and laboratory studies (e.g., Litman and Silvia 2006; Silvia 2005).”
Introducing the construct curiosity for predicting job performance (2013, background): “…high correlations between corresponding measures of these facets (Mussel, 2010) and the salient loadings on the same factor when factor analyzed (Litman & Silvia, 2006), the postulation of a general, underlying factor epistemic curiosity is indicated and in line with hierarchical models of…”
Appraisal components and emotion traits: Examining the appraisal basis of trait curiosity (2008, methodology): “Trait curiosity has been widely studied, and many reliable scales assess it (see Litman & Silvia, 2006).”
Epistemic curiosity and related constructs: Lacking evidence of discriminant validity (2010, background): “Despite these conceptual differences, Litman and Silvia (2006) found measures of curiosity as a feeling of deprivation and of specific and diverse curiosity to be highly correlated (.62) and having salient loadings on the same factor when factor analyzed.”
Epistemic curiosity and self-regulation (2015, background): “…to interpretation, factor structure, internal-consistency, and major correlates, even with different ‘‘trait-like’’ rating formats/response ranges (Litman & Mussel, 2013; Litman & Silvia, 2006), along with available translated and validated measures of the aforementioned self-regulatory domains.”
Disentangling Curiosity: Dimensionality, Definitions, and Distinctions from Interest in Educational Contexts (2014, methodology): “Consistent with optimal arousal theories (Berlyne 1960), interest-type curiosity (Litman 2010; Litman and Silvia 2006; Litman and Spielberger 2003), and with physiological research finding neural and behavioral correlates of curiosity congruent with the experience of reward (Kang et al. 2009), the…”
Curiosity and well-being (2007, background): “…of curiosity, psychologists traditionally have viewed curiosity in a more favorable light (Kashdan et al., 2004; Kashdan & Silvia, in press; Litman & Silvia, 2006) and have highlighted how curiosity functions as an adaptive motivational process related to the pursuit of novelty or…”
Validity of the Interest- and Deprivation-type epistemic curiosity distinction in non-students (2010, methodology): “…(r range = .68– .70), and in confirmatory factor analyses of the CFDS and ECS subscales, conducted to test the validity of the I/D distinction, model fit has been found to improve slightly by allowing the ECS EC-Specific subscale to load on both the I- and D-type factors (Litman & Silvia, 2006).”
Relationships between measures of I- and D-type curiosity, ambiguity tolerance, and need for closure: An initial test of the wanting-liking model of information-seeking (2010, background): “Additionally, the validity of the two curiosity scales has been demonstrated on the basis of positive correlations with other curiosity instruments and minimal relationships with measures of other constructs (Litman & Jimerson, 2004; Litman & Silvia, 2006; Litman & Spielberger, 2003).”
Interest and deprivation factors of epistemic curiosity (2008, result): “However, while the affective tone of the CFDS items differ considerably from those of the ECS, in previous research these two EC instruments have been found very highly correlated with one another (r range = .68–.70) and have salient loadings on the same factor when analyzed with other curiosity sca”
The Curiosity and Exploration Inventory-II: Development, Factor Structure, and Psychometrics (2009, unknown): “Studying trait-like curiosity requires trustworthy tools for measuring curiosity, but the history of curiosity assessment is checkered at best (Boyle, 1983; Litman & Silvia, 2006; Silvia, 2006, chap.”