Variable Details

Available Studies

MAP, MARS

Scaled? 

Not Scaled

Variable Type 

Cross-Sectional

Variable Name 

disord_regiment

Categories

Affect and Personality

Disorderliness
Novelty seeking subscale: Disorderliness - Sum of 9 items

This variable is only available in MAP.

Disorderliness is measured using the 9-item disorderliness subscale of the novelty seeking scale. The novelty seeking scale comes from the Temperament and Character Inventory and consists of four subscales: exploratory excitability, impulsiveness, extravagance, and disorderliness.

Participants are asked to respond true/mostly true or false/mostly false to each item. The subscale score ranges form 0 to 9 and is the number of item responses indicative of the trait. Higher scores indicate disorderliness while lower scores indicate regimentation.

Participants are presented the following items:

Item no.ItemCoding
1I lose my temper more quickly than most people.True = 1
2I like it when people can do whatever they want without strict rules and regulations.True = 1
3I am usually able to get other people to believe me, even when I know that what I am saying is exaggerated or untrue.True = 1
4I can usually do a good job of stretching the truth to tell a funnier story or to play a joke on someone.True = 1
5Even when most people feel it is not important, I often insist on things being done in a strict and orderly way.False = 1
6I almost never get so excited that I lose control of myself.False = 1
7I often break the rules and regulations when I think I can get away with it.True = 1
8I am not very good at talking my way out of trouble when I am caught doing something wrong.False = 1
9I have trouble telling a lie, even when it is meant to spare someone else's feelings.False = 1

Response choices for each item:

CodingResponse
TrueTrue or mostly true
FalseFalse or mostly false

Note: The subscale score is calculated if at least half of the items are non-missing.

Reference (not in PubMed): Cloninger CR, Przybeck TR, Svrakic DM, Wetzel RD. The Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI): A guide to its development and use. St. Louis, MO: Center for Psychobiology of Personality. 1993.