Exploring Curiosity:A curiosity-exhibitionism inventory, and some empirical results

To develop an instrument for a broad exploration of curiosity and exhibitionism, a questionnaire was constructed. This questionnaire contained 7 subscales, 5 scales reflecting exhibitionism and curiosity according to different degree of neutralization and 2 scales focusing on curiosity and exhibitionism during childhood. The complete questionnaire and the MAS was administered to 55 Norwegian Ss. In accordance with psychoanalytic theory, positive correlations between the different scales measuring different kinds of curiosity and exhibitionism emerged. The correlations between these scales and the MAS were mostly low and insignificant. The questionnaire was later administrated to 92 Norwegian Ss. The main results from the first study were replicated.