Hello,

There are a variety of measures for assessing trait curiosity. Many of these measures are older and have been updated. The paper you found is an older measure. There is nothing wrong with the older measure, but it has been updated. I have attached an article with an updated and well validated version for measuring trait curiosity. If you are looking for a work related measure, I recommend Mussel (2013), which was published in Journal of Organizational Behavior.

Good luck in your research!

Just found this fabulous paper:

"Curiosity and Exploration: Facilitating Positive Subjective Experiences and Personal Growth Opportunities",

which basically answers my question :D (see attachment, in case anyone else is asking the same question)

I don't think so... Exploring (or curiosity) is one of the most basic behavior in humans and animals... but I doubt it can be learnt or improved by training (as can be seen in memory, language, attention, etc). But, I think that the problem is isolating curiosity as a latent trait (as fidelity, honesty, kindness...)

Hello,

There are a variety of measures for assessing trait curiosity. Many of these measures are older and have been updated. The paper you found is an older measure. There is nothing wrong with the older measure, but it has been updated. I have attached an article with an updated and well validated version for measuring trait curiosity. If you are looking for a work related measure, I recommend Mussel (2013), which was published in Journal of Organizational Behavior.

Good luck in your research!

Hi,

like any other trait, it is supposed to be relatively stable across various situations. It seem, that we may need to differentiate clearly between curiosity understood as trait, and state. Therefore, I always encourage to arrange self descriptive instruments along with some behavioral observation.  Some papers: https://sites.google.com/site/wojciechpisula/publications

Very good luck!

I do not know of a 'curiosity' scale but I wondered if the 'Openness to experience' dimension from the Big 5 personality could have relevance?

A friend of mine - Patrick Mussel - did research on curiosity and validated a curiosity scale... 

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Patrick_Mussel/contributions

The following article discusses several measures of trait curiosity:

Litman, J. A., & Silvia, P. J. (2006). The latent structure of trait curiosity: Evidence for interest and deprivation curiosity dimensions. Journal of Personality Assessment, 86, 318-328.

I would use the Hogan HPI.  The Inquisitive scale measures: imagination, curiosity, and creative potential.

Regards Pieter 

I use te echological perspective (the important rol of the socioculturalcontext) and ethnogrphic observation to know some  important issues in social sciences. Y recommend you to explicit and characterize te context (familiar, scholar, urban street, labor, museum.....) because curiosity is demande by context and particularities. Then, you can observe, register and validate wiht variuos observations the permanence  or variation of curiosity behaviuor as a molar and not fragment of behaviour: is more  important a well defintion about tha concept that a instrument to make the medition.

An conventional test can be  usfull if complements the first mentiones way to cath the  issue.

I would probably go for the Kashdan scale. Definitely check out Paul Silvia's work (mentioned above) - he's on Research Gate and quite nice; I'm sure he'd send you copies of whatever he's got on the subject. Curiosity will, of course, load on Factor V (Openness to Experience), so in a pinch you could use an Openness-type scale as a proxy measure. But I think you really want something specific to curiosity.

Thank you so much, everyone! Your answers are incredibly useful!