The Curiosity and Exploration Inventory-II: Development, Factor Structure, and Psychometrics. Kashdan, T. B., Gallagher, M. W., Silvia, P. J., Winterstein, B. P., Breen, W. E., Terhar, D., & Steger, M. F. Journal of research in personality, 43(6):987–998, December, 2009.
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Given curiosity’s fundamental role in motivation, learning, and well-being, we sought to refine the measurement of trait curiosity with an improved version of the Curiosity and Exploration Inventory (CEI; ). A preliminary pool of 36 items was administered to 311 undergraduate students, who also completed measures of emotion, emotion regulation, personality, and well-being. Factor analyses indicated a two factor model—motivation to seek out knowledge and new experiences (Stretching; 5 items) and a willingness to embrace the novel, uncertain, and unpredictable nature of everyday life (Embracing; 5 items). In two additional samples (ns = 150 and 119), we cross-validated this factor structure and provided initial evidence for construct validity. This includes positive correlations with personal growth, openness to experience, autonomy, purpose in life, self-acceptance, psychological flexibility, positive affect, and positive social relations, among others. Applying item response theory (IRT) to these samples (n = 578), we showed that the items have good discrimination and a desirable breadth of difficulty. The item information functions and test information function were centered near zero, indicating that the scale assesses the mid-range of the latent curiosity trait most reliably. The findings thus far provide good evidence for the psychometric properties of the 10-item CEI-II.
@article{kashdan_curiosity_2009,
	title = {The {Curiosity} and {Exploration} {Inventory}-{II}: {Development}, {Factor} {Structure}, and {Psychometrics}},
	volume = {43},
	issn = {0092-6566},
	shorttitle = {The {Curiosity} and {Exploration} {Inventory}-{II}},
	url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2770180/},
	doi = {10.1016/j.jrp.2009.04.011},
	abstract = {Given curiosity’s fundamental role in motivation, learning, and well-being, we sought to refine the measurement of trait curiosity with an improved version of the Curiosity and Exploration Inventory (CEI; ). A preliminary pool of 36 items was administered to 311 undergraduate students, who also completed measures of emotion, emotion regulation, personality, and well-being. Factor analyses indicated a two factor model—motivation to seek out knowledge and new experiences (Stretching; 5 items) and a willingness to embrace the novel, uncertain, and unpredictable nature of everyday life (Embracing; 5 items). In two additional samples (ns = 150 and 119), we cross-validated this factor structure and provided initial evidence for construct validity. This includes positive correlations with personal growth, openness to experience, autonomy, purpose in life, self-acceptance, psychological flexibility, positive affect, and positive social relations, among others. Applying item response theory (IRT) to these samples (n = 578), we showed that the items have good discrimination and a desirable breadth of difficulty. The item information functions and test information function were centered near zero, indicating that the scale assesses the mid-range of the latent curiosity trait most reliably. The findings thus far provide good evidence for the psychometric properties of the 10-item CEI-II.},
	number = {6},
	urldate = {2016-03-29},
	journal = {Journal of research in personality},
	author = {Kashdan, Todd B. and Gallagher, Matthew W. and Silvia, Paul J. and Winterstein, Beate P. and Breen, William E. and Terhar, Daniel and Steger, Michael F.},
	month = dec,
	year = {2009},
	pmid = {20160913},
	pmcid = {PMC2770180},
	pages = {987--998},
}

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