Tactual Appeal and Aversion: Validation of Three Predictors

Summary

A Touch Adjective List, the Tactual Reactivity Scale of the SPI, and the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale were administered to male and female college students in an effort to evaluate relative ability to predict affective response to tactile materials on the Tactile Experience Task. Mean scores for the sexes did not differ significantly. Intercorrelations among predictors were similar for both sexes, however MAS and TRS correlated significantly with TET for females only. In a multiple linear regression analysis, TAL was found to be a good predictor of TET for males and even better for females. MAS and TRS contributed substantially to the prediction of TET for females only.