High School Personality Questionnaire and Sensation Seeking protocols for 59 subjects were factor analyzed and rotated analytically to the Varimax criterion and by hand to improve structure. Results were generally in line with the known second-order structure of the questionnaire and with Zuckerman's findings about the Sensation-Seeking domain and its relationship to the general personality realm.
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