Abstract

The five-dimensional curiosity-scale revised (5DCR) by Kashdan et al. (Citation2020) is the most comprehensive curiosity inventory available to date. 5DCR measures six facets of curiosity with four items each. Here, we present a German-language adaptation of the 5DCR and comprehensively validate this adaptation in a diverse sample of adults from Germany (N = 486). Moreover, we provide new evidence on the original English-language 5DCR in a parallel sample from the UK (N = 483). In both countries, we investigate the six facets' reliability, factorial validity, and convergent and discriminant validity with a large set of individual-differences constructs. In addition, we analyze the measurement invariance of the curiosity facets across the UK and Germany and across socio-demographic subgroups defined by age, sex, and education. Findings demonstrate that the new German-language adaptation of 5DCR and its English-language source version show psychometric properties similar to the original studies by Kashdan et al. (Citation2020) in the United States. All six curiosity facets reach at least partial scalar invariance across cultures, sex, education, and mostly also across age groups. The findings support the six-faceted theory of curiosity and show that 5DCR allows for a valid assessment of curiosity across cultures.

摘要

Kashdan 等人修订的五维好奇心量表 (5DCR)。( Citation 2020 ) 是迄今为止最全面的好奇心清单。5DCR 衡量好奇心的六个方面，每个方面有四个项目。在这里，我们展示了 5DCR 的德语改编版，并在来自德国的不同成年人样本 ( N  = 486) 中全面验证了这种改编版。此外，我们在英国的平行样本中提供了关于原始英语 5DCR 的新证据（N = 483）。在这两个国家，我们使用大量个体差异结构来调查六个方面的可靠性、因子有效性以及收敛和区分有效性。此外，我们分析了英国和德国以及按年龄、性别和教育定义的社会人口子群体的好奇心方面的测量不变性。调查结果表明，5DCR 的新德语改编版及其英语源版本显示出与 Kashdan 等人的原始研究相似的心理测量特性。(引用2020) 在美国。好奇心的所有六个方面都至少达到了跨文化、性别、教育以及大多数年龄组的部分标量不变性。研究结果支持好奇心的六面理论，并表明 5DCR 允许对跨文化的好奇心进行有效评估。