Abstract
Hogh-Olesen, H. (1992). Man and the Unknown: The Psychometry of Inertia. Nordisk Psykologi, 45, 1–23. A long series of observations let us know that people vary in the way in which they encounter the new and unknown. People show different tolerance towards novelty, change and ambiguity. They vary as to their personal inertia, and the subject of this study is the personal anchoring and psychometric measurement of these differences. As a possible assessment of inertia, Budner's ‘Intolerance of Ambiguity’ and Mehrabian & Russel's ‘Arousal Seeking Tendency Scale’ are translated and tested on various populations (artists, prison personel, and students of medicine and psychology). Analyses of equivalence, construct validations, and reliability tests are performed. With certain reservations, these scales seem able to form the basis for the development of specific inertia scales.
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