Testing the convergent validity, domain generality, and temporal stability of selected measures of people's tendency to explore.

ABSTRACT: Given the ubiquity of exploration in everyday life, researchers from many disciplines have developed methods to measure exploratory behaviour. There are therefore many ways to quantify and measure exploration. However, it remains unclear whether the different measures (i) have convergent validity relative to one another, (ii) capture a domain general tendency, and (iii) capture a tendency that is stable across time. In a sample of 678 participants, we found very little evidence of convergent validity for the behavioural measures (Hypothesis 1); most of the behavioural measures lacked sufficient convergent validity with one another or with the self-reports. In psychometric modelling analyses, we could not identify a good fitting model with an assumed general tendency to explore (Hypothesis

SUBMITTER: Anvari F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11375013 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature