Assessing individual differences in the use of haptic information using a German translation of the need for touch scale.

Autor/inn/en	Nuszbaum, Mandy; Voss, Andreas; Klauer, Karl Christoph; Betsch, Tilmann
Titel	Assessing individual differences in the use of haptic information using a German translation of the need for touch scale.
Quelle	In: Social psychology, 41 (2010) 4, S. 263-274Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1864-9335; 2151-2590
DOI	10.1027/1864-9335/a000035
Schlagwörter	Testvalidität; Testmethodik; Körperkontakt; Körperkontakt; Individueller Unterschied
Abstract	Developed and validated a German version of the Need for Touch scale (NFT) in 2 experiments. Study 1 (60 college students mean age 25 years) examined moderator effects of NFT on the influence of product experience on confidence and frustration in product evaluations. As expected, only for high-NFT individuals, confidence increased and frustration decreased when haptic information was available. In Study 2 (80 college students mean age 22 years), the authors explored the influence of NFT in a gambling task. Results showed that individuals with higher NFT more often chose gambling alternatives accompanied by a positive feeling of touch, while individuals with lower NFT did not integrate haptic information. Additionally, results confirmed the theoretically postulated 2-dimensional structure of NFT, as well as its discriminant validity. (ZPID).
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie, Trier
Update	2011/2