Sensation-Seeking and Risk-Taking Behaviors: A Study on Young Iranian Adults

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• 作者：Siamak Khodarahimi
• 关键词：Sensation seeking ; Risk taking ; Gender ; Young adults
• 刊名：Applied Research in Quality of Life
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：10
• 期：4
• 页码：721-734
• 全文大小：219 KB
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• 作者单位：Siamak Khodarahimi (1)
  
  1. Eghlid Branch, Islamic Azad University, Eghlid, Fars Province, Iran
  
• 刊物主题：Quality of Life Research; Sociology, general; Political Science, general; Quality of Life Research;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1871-2576

文摘

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between sensation-seeking and risk-taking behaviors, to analyze the role of sensation seeking in the prediction of risk taking, and to investigate the role of gender on these constructs in a sample of young Iranian adults. The randomly selected sample consisted of 92 males and 208 females who came from the city of Eghlid, Fars province, Iran. A demographic questionnaire, the Sensation Seeking Scale-V Form (SSS-V) and the Domain-Specific Risk Taking Scale (DOSPERT) were used in this study. An exploratory factor analysis indicated that the DOSPERT is a valid and reliable 6-factor scale: social, recreational, gambling, health/safety, investing, and ethical. The results demonstrated that sensation seeking and its subscales had significant relationships to the DOSPERT and its subscales. Sensation seeking explained 16 % of the total risk-taking behavior variability. It was also found that males had significantly higher scores than females in both sensation-seeking and risk-taking behavior constructs. Keywords Sensation seeking Risk taking Gender Young adults