Iowa-Netherlands Comparison Orientation Measure (INCOM)

The Iowa-Netherlands Comparison Orientation Measure (INCOM) is an 11-item measure of individual differences in social comparison orientation. It identifies people who are high and low in their tendencies to use social comparisons, but does not identify the motives that respondents have for making social comparisons.

In NTR, a modified version of the scale was used that also assessed social comparision with the co-twin (https://doi.org/10.1017/thg.2017.61).

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  • Young Netherlands Twin Register

  • YE_ATTEF3
    •   CC
    15.0 - 23.0 years   From 2007-01-01 to 2010-01-01
    Mode of collection SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire
    Analysis unit Individual
    References
    Gibbons, F. X., & Buunk, B. P. (1999). Individual differences in social comparison: Development of a scale of social comparison orientation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76(1), 129–142. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.76.1.129
    Huguet, P., Carlier, M., Dolan, C. V., de Geus, E. J., & Boomsma, D. I. (2017). Social Comparison Orientation in Monozygotic and Dizygotic Twins. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 20(6), 550–557. https://doi.org/10.1017/thg.2017.61
    You can also access this dataset using the API (see API Docs).