scholarly journals Relación entre la búsqueda de sensaciones y conductas de riesgo en adolescentes ecuatorianos desde una perspectiva de género

2019 ◽  
pp. 32-46
Author(s):  
Dalila Eslava Pérez ◽  
Ginesa López-Crespo ◽  
Enrique Espinoza Freire
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Adolescent Risk ◽  
Conducta Sexual De Riesgo ◽  
Sensation Seeking Scale

El objetivo del estudio era conocer la relación entre las diferentes dimensiones de la variable de personalidad de búsqueda de sensaciones y algunas conductas de riesgo, concretamente el consumo de drogas y la conducta sexual de riesgo, en función del género de los participantes. Asimismo, se estudió si los consumos de las diferentes drogas y la conducta sexual de riesgo estaban relacionados entre sí. La muestra contó con 367 participantes de Ecuador (un 55.6% de chicos y un 44.4% de chicas) de entre 13 y 17 años. Se administraron algunos ítems de la escala The Adolescent Risk-Taking Questionnaire y la escala Sensation-Seeking Scale-V. Los resultados mostraron que la búsqueda de experiencias y la desinhibición son las dos dimensiones que mejor explican las conductas de consumo en ambos géneros y que estos explican la conducta sexual de riesgo en chicos pero no en chicas. Además, se encontró que el consumo de drogas y las conductas sexuales de riesgo presentaron relación en ambos casos. Se plantea así la necesidad de buscar alternativas para que aquellos jóvenes con más necesidad de experimentación canalicen esa característica hacia actividades saludables.

Positive risk-taking: Mixed-methods validation of a self-report scale and evidence for genetic links to personality and negative risk-taking

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Wales Patterson ◽  
Lilla Pivnick ◽  
Frank D Mann ◽  
Andrew D Grotzinger ◽  
Kathryn C Monahan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Positive Behaviors ◽  
Adolescent Risk

Adolescents are more likely to take risks. Typically, research on adolescent risk-taking has focused on its negative health and societal consequences. However, some risk-taking behaviors might be positive, defined here as behavior that does not violate the rights of others and that might advance socially-valuable goals. Empirical work on positive risk-taking has been limited by measurement challenges. In this study, we elicited adolescents’ free responses (n = 75) about a time they took a risk. Based on thematic coding, we identified positive behaviors described as risks and selected items to form a self-report scale. The resulting positive risk-taking scale was quantitatively validated in a population-based sample of adolescent twins (n = 1249). Second, we evaluated associations between positive risk-taking, negative risk-taking, and potential personality and peer correlates using a genetically informed design. Sensation seeking predicted negative and positive risk-taking equally strongly, whereas extraversion differentiated forms of risk-taking. Additive genetic influences on personality accounted for the total heritability in positive risk-taking. Indirect pathways from personality through positive and negative peer environments were identified. These results provide promising evidence that personality factors of sensation seeking and extraversion can manifest as engagement in positive risks. Increased understanding of positive manifestations of adolescent risk-taking may yield targets for positive youth development strategies to bolster youth well-being.

Impulsivity, Risk-Taking, and Sensation-Seeking Scale

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Schafer ◽  
Laura Blanchard ◽  
William Fals-Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Sensation Seeking Scale

scholarly journals Relationships between Head Impacts, Competitive Aggression, and Risk-taking Behavior in Collegiate Ice Hockey Players

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 780-780
Author(s):  
M S DiFabio ◽  
T A Buckley
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Linear Acceleration ◽  
Head Impact ◽  
Ice Hockey ◽  
Impact Loads ◽  
Head Impacts ◽  
Hockey Players ◽  
Risk Taking Behavior ◽  
Sensation Seeking Scale

Abstract Purpose To examine relationships between head impact kinematics sustained over a season and competitive aggression and self-reported risk-taking behavior in collegiate club ice-hockey athletes. Methods Twenty male ice-hockey players (19.9±1.2 y.o, 1.8±0.06 m, 78.5±5.7 kg) completed the Competitive Anger and Aggression Scale (CAAS, Range:0-84) and the Brief Sensation Seeking Scale (BSSS, Range:8-40) during the preseason as measures of competitive aggression and risk-taking behavior with higher/lower reflecting higher/lower aggression and risk taking. Penalty minutes (PM) and games played (GP) were taken from official game records. Head impact kinematics (number of impacts, linear mean, peak, cumulative acceleration) were recorded by tri-axial accelerometers worn during games/practices. Spearman correlation was performed to examine relationships between variables. Results The mean number of impacts was 76.6±54.9 (range: 6–171); mean and cumulative acceleration were 36.3±4.2g (range:27.8–42.2g) and 2829.4±2024.9g (range:198.4–6527.2g), respectively. Neither CAAS (mean: 48.7±10.9, range: 24–64) nor BSSS scores (mean: 25.3±4.4, range:15–32) were significantly related to impact kinematics. GP was significantly correlated with number of impacts (r=.63, p=.003) and cumulative linear acceleration (r=.61, p=.004). PM was significantly correlated with number of impacts (r=.52, p=.20) and cumulative linear acceleration (r=.55, p=.13). Conclusion There were no relationships between the head impact kinematics and self-reported aggressiveness or risk taking behavior, but more PM was strongly related to higher head impact loads. Considering PM may be useful in aiding to identify athletes who may sustain higher head impact loads, however, self-reports of behavior may not be.

Targeting adolescent risk-taking behaviors: the contributions of egocentrism and sensation-seeking

2000 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
KATHRYN GREENE ◽  
MARINA KRCMAR ◽  
LYNDA H WALTERS ◽  
DONALD L RUBIN ◽  
JEROLD ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Adolescent Risk ◽  
Risk Taking Behaviors

Risk-Taking Behavior: A Cognitive Approach

1996 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 489-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxie P. Kohler
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Risk Taking Behavior ◽  
Sensation Seeking Scale

In examining the associations of critical thinking skills and risk-taking behavior, scores on the Sensation Seeking Scale, Form V, Rotter's I-E Scale, and the Cornell Critical Thinking Scale confirm earlier research on sensation seeking in pointing to gender differences that predict more risk-taking behavior by men ( n = 52) than women ( n = 48).

scholarly journals Adolescent risk-taking and social influence in the context of exploration

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Kai Ciranka ◽  
Wouter van den Bos
Keyword(s):  
Peer Influence ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Learning Agents ◽  
Adolescent Risk ◽  
Adolescent Behaviour ◽  
Excessive Risk Taking

Adolescents are often described as a strange and different species that behaves like no other age group, typical behaviours being excessive risk-taking and sensitivity to peer influence. Different theories of adolescent behaviour attribute this to different internal mechanisms like undeveloped cognitive control, higher sensation-seeking or extraordinary social motivation. Many agree that some of adolescent risk-taking behaviour is adaptive. Here we argue that to understand adolescent risk-taking, and why it may be adaptive, research needs to pay attention to the adolescent environments’ structure and view adolescents as learning and exploring agents in it. We identify three unique aspects of the adolescent environment: 1) the opportunities to take risks are increased significantly, 2) these opportunities are novel and their outcomes uncertain, and 3) peers become more important. Next, we illustrate how adolescent risk-taking may emerge from learning using agent-based modelling, and show that a typical inverted-U shape in risk-taking may emerge in absence of a specific adolescent motivational drive for sensation-seeking or sensitivity to social information. The simulations also show how risky exploration may be necessary for adolescents to gain long-term benefits in later developmental stages and that social learning can help reduce losses. Finally, we discuss how a renewed ecological perspective and the focus on adolescents as learning agents may shift the interpretation of current findings and inspire future studies.

RISK EVALUATION AND RISKY BEHAVIOR OF HIGH AND LOW SENSATION SEEKERS

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 375-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tova Rosenbloom
Keyword(s):  
Negative Correlation ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Risk Evaluation ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Risk Valuation ◽  
Sensation Seeking Scale ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Evaluation Inventory

This study was aimed at achieving a better understanding of the role of the mediation of risk valuation between personality and risk-taking behavior. A sample of 55 females and 20 males completed the Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS) and self-report inventory of risk-taking in one session and a risk evaluation inventory in another session. The results show a positive correlation between risk taking and sensation seeking and a negative correlation between risk evaluation and sensation seeking. High sensation seekers are found to be higher in risk taking than in risk evaluation while the low sensation seekers are higher in risk evaluation than in risk taking. The meaning and possible implications of these results to the relationship between risk taking and sensation seeking are discussed.

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