1. Evaluating the Structure of the Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA) with Bootstrap Exploratory Graph Analysis.
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Silvia, Paul J., Rodriguez-Boerwinkle, Rebekah M., Awa, Kim N., Zabelina, Darya L., and Christensen, Alexander P.
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AESTHETIC experience ,ART objects ,PSYCHOMETRICS ,SELF-evaluation ,AESTHETICS ,INDIVIDUAL differences - Abstract
The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA) is a self-report scale for measuring individual differences in the strength of responses to art objects and events. Its 14 items sort into three subscales: aesthetic appreciation (AA), intense aesthetic experience (IAE), and creative behaviour. The present research evaluated the dimensionality of the AReA using tools from network psychometrics, particularly bootstrap exploratory graph analysis. Using a sample of English-speaking adults (n = 1071), the network analyses closely replicated the number and item composition of the AReA subscales, but one of the items—a cross-loaded item proposed to be in both the AA and IAE subscales—was not replicated. Using the bootstrap sampling distributions, we suggest item assignments that avoid awkward dual-loadings and provide a simpler dimensional structure. Taken together, the results reveal clear strengths of the AReA and illustrate how emerging network tools can illuminate and guide psychometric decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...
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- 2025
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