Low Versus High Sensation-seeking Tourists: a Study of Backpackers' Experience Risk Perception

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Galia Fuchs
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Sensation Seeking

scholarly journals Factors Associated with Urban Risk-Taking Behaviour during 2018 Typhoon Mangkhut: A Cross Sectional Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (11) ◽  
pp. 4150
Author(s):  
Evan Su Wei Shang ◽  
Eugene Siu Kai Lo ◽  
Zhe Huang ◽  
Kevin Kei Ching Hung ◽  
Emily Ying Yang Chan
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Risk Perception ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Extreme Events ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Risk Behaviour ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
High Risk Behaviour

Although much of the health emergency and disaster risk management (Health-EDRM) literature evaluates methods to protect health assets and mitigate health risks from disasters, there is a lack of research into those who have taken high-risk behaviour during extreme events. The study’s main objective is to examine the association between engaging in high-risk behaviour and factors including sociodemographic characteristics, disaster risk perception and household preparedness during a super typhoon. A computerized randomized digit dialling cross-sectional household survey was conducted in Hong Kong, an urban metropolis, two weeks after the landing of Typhoon Mangkhut. Telephone interviews were conducted in Cantonese with adult residents. The response rate was 23.8% and the sample was representative of the Hong Kong population. Multivariable logistic regressions of 521 respondents adjusted with age and gender found education, income, risk perception and disaster preparedness were insignificantly associated with risk-taking behaviour during typhoons. This suggests that other factors may be involved in driving this behaviour, such as a general tendency to underestimate risk or sensation seeking. Further Health-EDRM research into risk-taking and sensation seeking behaviour during extreme events is needed to identify policy measures.

scholarly journals The sublime attraction of active volcanoes: An exploration of tourists’ experiences during a long-distance hiking route in Iceland

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 258-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Þórhildur Heimisdóttir ◽  
Anna Dóra Sæþórsdóttir ◽  
Guðrún Gísladóttir
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Environmental Hazards ◽  
Observation Study ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Participatory Observation

This article attempts to understand the value and meaning of a hazardous natural environment for tourists. It focuses on the attraction of volcanic sites in the eyes of sensation-seeking hikers. The research is based on a participatory observation study and in-depth interviews with 11 hikers on the Laugavegur hiking trail, in the Highlands of Iceland. The research questions addressed in this article are, do hikers experience a threat from the natural environment, and does a hazardous environment contribute to a feeling of the sublime? In support of the theories put forth in the article about sensation seekers, risk perception, its heuristic traps and sublime feeling, the article argues that tourists perceive risks in the hazardous environment in a positive way, as something spectacular, unique and sublime. Thus, their positive risk perception of existing potential environmental hazards encourages tourists to ignore signs of risks and hazards and subsequently puts them in unnecessary danger.

scholarly journals PENGARUH KONFORMITAS DAN RISK PERCEPTION TERHADAP SENSATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR PADA REMAJA PENGENDARA SEPEDA MOTOR DI BAWAH UMUR

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Aully Grashinta ◽  
Ummu Khairun Nisa
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Seeking Behavior ◽  
Sensation Seeking Scale

Penelitian bertujuan membuktikan pengaruh persepsi resiko sebagai faktor internal individu dan konformitas teman sebaya sebagai faktor eksternal terhadap kecenderungan sensation seeking behavior pada remaja pengendara sepeda motor di bawah umur. Sampel penelitian 201 pengendara sepeda motor berusia 12-16 tahun di Jakarta.Teknik sampling yaitu aksidental. Konformitas diukur dengan modifikasi skala Konformitas Teman Sebaya (Annurfatmah,2014), reliabilitasnya 0.734; risk perception diukur denganmodifikasi Skala Risk Perception (Utami,2010)reliabilitasnya 0,888 sedangkan sensation seeking behaviour diukur dengan modifikasi Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS-V) dari Zuckerman (2007) reliabilitasnya 0.879.Teknik analisis data menggunakan regresi ganda. Nilai R2 yang diperoleh sebesar 0.324 and p<0.05. Hal ini berarti bahwa konformitas dan risk perception memiliki pengaruh terhadap sensation seeking behavior sebesar 32.4% (R2=0.324, p<0.05) sedangkan sisanya 67.6% dipengaruhi oleh faktor lain.

scholarly journals Mediating Influences of Negative Affect and Risk Perception on the Relationship Between Sensation Seeking and Adolescent Cigarette Smoking

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 457-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Doran ◽  
P. E. Sanders ◽  
N. M. Bekman ◽  
M. J. Worley ◽  
T. K. Monreal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Cigarette Smoking ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Rethinking adolescent risk-taking: Perception of social risk impacts expected involvement in health-risk behaviour during adolescence

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack L Andrews ◽  
Kathryn L. Mills ◽  
John Coleman Flournoy ◽  
Jessica Flannery ◽  
Arian Mobasser ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Risk Behaviour ◽  
Social Benefit ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
Risk Behaviours ◽  
Health Risk Behaviour ◽  
Illicit Substance Use ◽  
Health Risk Behaviours

During adolescence the prevalence of certain health risk behaviours, such as binge drinking and illicit substance use, increases. Engagement in these behaviours has been attributed to immature self-regulation, heightened sensation seeking, and peer influence during adolescence. However, more recently, adolescence has been characterised as a time of risk sensitivity rather than universal increases in health-risk behaviour. For example, the extent to which individuals engage in health-risk behaviours may relate to their sensitivity to the social risk involved in engaging in the health-risk behaviour. In the present study we examined how individual differences in social risk perception relate to an individual’s expectation of future involvement in risky behaviour during adolescence. One hundred and twenty-two participants (ages 11-17, mean 14 years) reported their expected involvement in a number of risk behaviours and degree to which they thought a) engaging in these behaviours would make people like them more, and b) not engaging in these behaviours would make people like them less. Social risk perception was operationalised as the perceived social benefit gained from engaging in a risk behaviour, from low (people would like you less), to high (people would like you more). We used linear mixed effects modelling to assess the contribution of social risk perception in predicting individuals expected involvement in health risk behaviours. We found that adolescents who perceived the social benefit associated with engaging in a risk behaviour to be high were more likely to report higher expected involvement in said behaviour. This was true for illicit substance use, aggressive and illegal behaviours, and risky drinking, but not for risky sex. Adolescents who reported a higher degree of peer victimisation showed a stronger relationship between the perceived social benefit of engaging in, and expected involvement in, these risk behaviours. Further, perceived social benefit moderated the relationship between sensation seeking and expected involvement in risky behaviours. Taken together, these data suggest that, across a number of health risking behaviours, adolescents incorporate perceptions of social risk when making decisions regarding their expected involvement. We argue that future investigations of adolescent health risking behaviours should incorporate social risk.

scholarly journals Efectos de un programa de educación para la seguridad en el deporte en escolares de secundaria (Effects of an education program for safety in sport in secondary school students)

Retos ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 5-8
Author(s):  
Pedro Ángel Latorre Román ◽  
José Carlos Cámara Pérez ◽  
Antonio Pantoja Vallejo
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Control Group ◽  
School Students

El objetivo del estudio es analizar los efectos de la implantación de un Programa de Educación para la Seguridad en las actividades físico-deportivas escolares (ESAFE) sobre los factores psicológicos y de personalidad relacionados con el accidente deportivo en escolares de Educación Secundaria. Los participantes de este estudio son escolares de Educación Secundaria de un IES de la provincia de Jaén. El total de sujetos fue de 149 alumnos (Edad= 13.62 años, DT= 1.22). Mediante un ensayo controlado fueron distribuidos en un grupo control (73 participantes, Edad= 13.60 años, DT= 1.22) y otro experimental (76 participantes, Edad= 13.64 años, DT= 1.24). Las variables analizadas han sido la búsqueda de sensaciones, la percepción del riesgo, propensión al accidente y por otro lado el número de lesiones y accidentes. Los resultados muestran que tras la intervención, las diferencias postest-pretest son significativamente mayores (p<0.001) en seguridad pasiva y activa y en la escala total de seguridad en el grupo experimental. El programa ESAFE ha sido capaz de reducir de manera significativa (p<0.05) la búsqueda de sensaciones en el deporte. El programa ESAFE se puede emplear como un recurso educativo en la sensibilización sobre los riesgos presentes en las actividades físico-deportivas escolares y por lo tanto en la educación de la seguridad. Sería interesante su incorporación en la práctica de los docentes de Educación Física, tanto en la evaluación inicial como durante el proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje.Palabras clave: educación, seguridad, deporte escolar, búsqueda de sensaciones, percepción del riesgo.Abstract: The purpose of the study is to analyze the effects of the implementation of an Education Program for Safety in physical and sport activities on psychological and personality factors related to accidents as a result of sport of Secondary Education students. Participants in this study were Secondary School students, students who were in 1st and 3rd year from a Secondary School in the province of Jaen. The total number of participants were 149 students (age= 13.62 years, SD = 1.22). By means of a controlled trial they were divided into a control group (73 participants, age = 13.60 years, SD = 1.22) and into an intervention group (76 participants, age = 13.64 years, SD = 1.24). The variables analyzed were sensation seeking, risk perception, propensity of accident and the number of injuries and accidents. Results show that after the intervention of the ESAFE program, pretest-posttest differences are significantly higher (p<0.001) in the two scales of safety and in the full scale of the intervention group. The ESAFE program has been able to reduce significantly (p<0.05) sensation seeking in sport. In conclusion, the ESAFE program can be used as an educational resource in raising awareness of the risks involved in physical and sports activities in school and, therefore, in safety education. So it would be interesting to incorporate it into the practice of PE teachers both in the initial evaluation and during the whole process of teaching and learning.Keywords: education, safety, school sport, sensation seeking, risk perception.

scholarly journals A Longitudinal Analysis of Gambling Predictors among Adolescents

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (24) ◽  
pp. 9266
Author(s):  
Álvaro Botella-Guijarro ◽  
Daniel Lloret-Irles ◽  
José Vicente Segura-Heras ◽  
Víctor Cabrera-Perona ◽  
Juan Antonio Moriano
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Peer Pressure ◽  
Subjective Norm ◽  
Gambling Behavior ◽  
Universal Prevention ◽  
Preventive Interventions ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Proportional Relationship

Although gambling is forbidden for minors, the prevalence of gambling among adolescents is increasing. In order to improve preventive interventions, more evidence on predictors of gambling onset is needed. A longitudinal study was proposed to (1) establish the prevalence of gambling; (2) identify factors associated with gambling behavior the following year; and (3) adjust a model to predict gambling behavior. A cohort of 1074 students (13–18 years old) was followed for 12 months. The prevalence of gambling reached 42.0% in the second measure. Boys gambled 2.7 times more than girls, and the highest percentages of gambling onset showed up between 13 and 14 years old. Gambling onset and maintenance was associated with gender, age, sensation-seeking, risk perception, self-efficacy for not gambling, parents’ attitude towards gambling, group pressure (friends), subjective norm, exposure to advertising, accessibility, normative perception, gambling in T1 and parents gambling behavior. Gender, gambling in T1 and risk perception were significant in all three logistic adjusted regression models, with the fourth variable being sensation seeking, peer pressure (friends) and accessibility, respectively. It is suggested that universal prevention should be aimed preferably at children under 15 years old and to alert regulators and public administrations to the directly proportional relationship between accessibility and gambling onset.

Examining a Possible Triangle Effect: Risk Perception, Sensation Seeking and Focused Attention

2002 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 280-284
Author(s):  
Charneta Samms ◽  
Kayenda Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Potential Problem ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Focused Attention ◽  
Sensation Seeking Scale ◽  
Current Standards

The purpose of this study was to examine the correlation between risk perception, sensation seeking, and focused attention. Participants were given a set of colors and symbols to rate using a nine point Likert-type risk perception rating scale. A measure of sensation seeking and focused attention was administered using the Thrill and Adventure Seeking and Experience Seeking subscales of the Sensation Seeking Scale and the Expanded Tellegan Absorption Scale respectively. Through the analysis of MANOVA results, the colors red, orange and yellow were identified consistently among all groups as colors of higher warning; however blue differed significantly between groups. These findings signify a potential problem if colors other than those in current standards are under consideration for use in warning designs.

scholarly journals An Exploration of Hiking Risk Perception: Dimensions and Antecedent Factors

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. 1986 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shengxiang She ◽  
Yunzhang Tian ◽  
Lin Lu ◽  
Iveta Eimontaite ◽  
Ting Xie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Physical Risk ◽  
Green Tourism ◽  
Psychological Risk

Hiking is a form of green tourism which deserves promotion and popularization, especially in present day China. However, the risks inherent in hiking could have a negative impact on the development of hiking tourism. It is important to better understand how people perceive the risks of hiking and what type of experience attributes they prefer. However, no studies have investigated the nature of risk perception from the perspective of hikers. This study explores the dimensions of the perceived risk of hiking and investigates the associated factors of hiking risk perception as well as hiking preference. A questionnaire with 18 items was used to capture people’s perception of hiking risks, and two groups of samples were surveyed. Generally, this study identified two dimensions of perceived risk towards hiking based on a sample of hikers, i.e., physical risk and psychological risk. Demographic variables such as gender, upbringing background, and hiking frequency were shown to predict hiking risk perception while gender and hiking frequency predicted route preference. The personality trait of sensation seeking appeared to be a significant predictor of hiking preference. These findings lend themselves to market segmentation and marketing strategies on hiking tourism.

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