Personality Correlates of Caffeine Dependence: The Role of Sensation Seeking, Impulsivity, and Risk Taking.

2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather A. Jones ◽  
C. W. Lejuez
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Personality Correlates ◽  
Caffeine Dependence

scholarly journals Temperamental exuberance and executive function predict propensity for risk taking in childhood

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 847-856 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayelet Lahat ◽  
Kathryn A. Degnan ◽  
Lauren K. White ◽  
Jennifer Martin McDermott ◽  
Heather A. Henderson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Executive Function ◽  
Inhibitory Control ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Developmental Trajectories ◽  
Antisocial Behaviors ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Attention Shifting ◽  
Moderating Role

AbstractThe present study utilized a multilevel approach to examine developmental trajectories in risk-taking propensity. We examined the moderating role of specific executive function components, attention shifting and inhibitory control, on the link between exuberant temperament in infancy and propensity for risk taking in childhood. Risk taking was assessed using a task previously associated with sensation seeking and antisocial behaviors. Two hundred ninety-one infants were brought into the lab and behaviors reflecting exuberance were observed at 4, 9, 24, and 36 months of age. Executive function was assessed at 48 months of age. Risk-taking propensity was measured when children were 60 months of age. The results indicated that exuberance and attention shifting, but not inhibitory control, significantly interacted to predict propensity for risk taking. Exuberance was positively associated with risk-taking propensity among children who were relatively low in attention shifting but unrelated for children high in attention shifting. These findings illustrated the multifinality of developmental outcomes for temperamentally exuberant young children and pointed to the distinct regulatory influences of different executive functions for children of differing temperaments. Attention shifting likely affords a child the ability to consider both positive and negative consequences and moderates the relation between early exuberance and risk-taking propensity.

scholarly journals Conflict between Threat Sensitivity and Sensation Seeking in the Adolescent Brain: Role of the Hippocampus, and Neurobehavioural Plasticity Induced by Pleasurable Early Enriched Experience

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 268
Author(s):  
Alberto Fernández-Teruel
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Developmental Studies ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Early Life Adversity ◽  
Reward Seeking ◽  
Regulatory Systems ◽  
Selection Of

Adolescence is characterized both by the exacerbation of the experience of anxiety, fear or threat, on one hand, and by increased reward seeking (reward sensitivity) and risk taking on the other hand. The rise of these apparently opposite processes, i.e., threat-related anxiety and reward-related sensation seeking, seems to stem from a relatively decreased top-down inhibition of amygdala and striatal circuits by regulatory systems (e.g., prefrontal cortex, hippocampus) that mature later. The present commentary article aims to discuss recent related literature and focusses on two main issues: (i) the septo-hippocampal system (in particular the ventral hippocampus) might be a crucial region for the regulation of approach–avoidance conflict and also for the selection of the most appropriate responses during adolescence, and (ii) developmental studies involving early-life pleasurable-enriched experience (as opposed to early-life adversity) might be a useful study paradigm in order to decipher whether neuroplasticity induced by such experiences (for example, in the hippocampus and associated circuitry) may lead to better top-down inhibition and more “balanced” adolescent responses to environmental demands.

Who Takes Risks in High-Risk Sport?: The Role of Alexithymia

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Barlow ◽  
Tim Woodman ◽  
Caradog Chapman ◽  
Matthew Milton ◽  
Daniel Stone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Present Model ◽  
Predictive Role ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Intense Emotion ◽  
Mediation Models

People who have difficulty identifying and describing their emotions are more likely to seek out the experience of emotions in the high-risk domain. This is because the high-risk domain provides the experience of more easily identifiable emotions (e.g., fear). However, the continued search for intense emotion may lead such individuals to take further risks within this domain, which, in turn, would lead to a greater likelihood of experiencing accidents. Across three studies, we provide the first evidence in support of this view. In Study 1 (n = 762), alexithymia was associated with greater risk taking and a greater propensity to experience accidents and close calls. In Study 2 (n = 332) and Study 3 (n = 356), additional bootstrapped mediation models confirmed these relationships. The predictive role of alexithymia remained significant when controlling for sensation seeking (Study 1) and anhedonia (Study 2 and Study 3). We discuss the practical implications of the present model as they pertain to minimizing accidents and close calls in the high-risk domain.

scholarly journals Within-person variability in sensation-seeking during daily life: positive associations with alcohol use and self-defined risky behaviors

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Lydon-Staley ◽  
Emily B. Falk ◽  
Danielle S Bassett
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Risky Behaviors ◽  
School Work ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Insight Into

Sensation-seeking is the seeking of varied, novel, and intense experiences and the willingness to take risks in order to engage in these experiences. Sensation-seeking is robustly associated with engagement in risky behaviors but important questions remain concerning the role of within-person variability in sensation-seeking. We use data from a 21-day daily diary protocol from 167 participants (mean age = 25.37, SD = 7.34) to test day-to-day, within-person associations between sensation-seeking and both alcohol use and self-reported risk-taking. Participants also reported the riskiest behavior they engaged in each day, allowing insight into the types of risks that participants take during the course of daily life. Multilevel model results indicate that days of higher than usual sensation-seeking are more likely to be days on which alcohol is consumed relative to days of no alcohol use, and that risk-taking is higher than usual on days of higher than usual sensation-seeking. Coupling natural language processing with network science tools, we reduce 2490 self-reports of the day’s riskiest behavior to 20 communities reflecting a wide range of risk domains, including social, school, work, and drug use risks. Creating a risk-taking diversity score based on the identified domains of participant-elicited risk behaviors, we find that trait sensation-seeking is positively associated with greater diversity in the types of risks reported. In sum, we capture day-to-day fluctuations in sensation-seeking, observe that sensation-seeking and both alcohol use and risky behaviors are associated at the within-person level, and provide insight into the types of risks taken during the course of daily life.

The predictive role of achievement goals adoption on sensation-seeking and risk taking in driving

2021 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Nicolas Mascret ◽  
Martin Nicolleau ◽  
Cécile Martha ◽  
Claire Naude ◽  
Thierry Serre ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Achievement Goals ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Predictive Role

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.

The Role of Gender and Sensation Seeking in Film Choice

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Smita C. Banerjee ◽  
Kathryn Greene ◽  
Marina Krcmar ◽  
Zhanna Bagdasarov ◽  
Dovile Ruginyte
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Negative Mood ◽  
Positive Mood ◽  
The United States ◽  
High Arousal ◽  
Subject Design ◽  
Happy Mood

This study demonstrates the significance of individual difference factors, particularly gender and sensation seeking, in predicting media choice (examined through hypothetical descriptions of films that participants anticipated they would view). This study used a 2 (Positive mood/negative mood) × 2 (High arousal/low arousal) within-subject design with 544 undergraduate students recruited from a large northeastern university in the United States. Results showed that happy films and high arousal films were preferred over sad films and low-arousal films, respectively. In terms of gender differences, female viewers reported a greater preference than male viewers for happy-mood films. Also, male viewers reported a greater preference for high-arousal films compared to female viewers, and female viewers reported a greater preference for low-arousal films compared to male viewers. Finally, high sensation seekers reported a preference for high-arousal films. Implications for research design and importance of exploring media characteristics are discussed.

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