Sensation-Seeking and the Rorschach: A Personality Trait Study

Abstract The current study aims to examine the influence of personality traits (alternative Zuckerman model) and driving anger in the explanation of risky driving style in individuals convicted for road safety offences (N = 245), using as a basis an adaptation of the context-mediated model. This is a transversal, descriptive study designed to be implemented by means of surveys, in which took part 245 men convicted of road safety offences from five prisons in Galicia (a region in northwestern Spain) took part. The average age of the participants was 38.73 years (Sx-9.61), with a range between 18 and 64 years. All participants had three or more years of driving experience. Our data shows that the Impulsive-Sensation Seeking (Imp-SS) personality trait had a direct and positive effect on dangerous driving, while the Activity (Act) trait had a direct but negative effect. The Aggression-Hostility (Agg-Host) trait, in turn, influenced the risky driving style, but not directly, but by raising driving anger levels, so it acted as a powerful mediator between the Aggression-Hostility (Agg-Hos) trait and the risky driving style. In general, our research partially replicates and expands previous findings regarding the model used, the aggression-hostility personality trait (Agg-Host) was placed in the distal context, driving anger in the proximal context, while age and personality traits Activity (Act) and Impulsive-Sensation Seeking (Imp-SS) were direct predictors. The results of this study may have practical implications for the detection and rehabilitation of offenders and penalties for road safety offences.

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Sensation Seeking as a Musical Interest Target Variable: How a Personality Trait can predict Musical Activity

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e509412012-001 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Joao P. Oliveira

Keyword(s):

Personality Trait ◽

Sensation Seeking ◽

Target Variable ◽

Musical Activity ◽

Interest Target

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Sensation-seeking, life events and depression

The British Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1192/bjp.178.6.549 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 178 (6) ◽

pp. 549-552 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Anne Farmer ◽

Kate Redman ◽

Tanya Harris ◽

Arshad Mahmood ◽

Stephanie Sadler ◽

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Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Life Events ◽

Personality Trait ◽

Genetic Risk ◽

Sensation Seeking ◽

Genetic Risk Factors ◽

Adverse Life Events ◽

Control Subjects ◽

Healthy Control ◽

The Relationship

BackgroundThe relationship between adversity and genetic risk factors in depression could be mediated by familial ‘hazard prone’ traits, as reflected in high levels of sensation-seeking.AimsTo examine whether high sensation-seeking scores are associated with more adverse life events resulting in depression.MethodIn a sib-pair design, 108 probands with depression and their siblings and 105 healthy control subjects and their siblings were compared for psychopathology, life events and scores on the Sensation-Seeking Questionnaire (SSQ).ResultsThe SSQ scores were correlated negatively with depression, were familial and were correlated positively with less severe events, but not the severe events typically associated with depressive onsets.ConclusionsThe SSQ measures a familial personality trait and depression is associated with lower scores. Although high sensation-seeking is associated with a higher rate of life events, these carry little threat.

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La personalidad del turista como criterio de segmentación de destinos de sol y playa: una aplicación al destino Gran Canaria

Cuadernos de Turismo ◽

10.6018/turismo.44.404831 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 247-275

Author(s):

Noelia Medina-Ojeda ◽

Josefa D. Martín-Santana ◽

Diego R. Medina-Muñoz

Keyword(s):

Personality Traits ◽

Big Five ◽

Market Segmentation ◽

Personality Trait ◽

Sensation Seeking ◽

Demographic Characteristics ◽

Gran Canaria ◽

Big 5

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la influencia de las características sociodemográficas en la personalidad del turista en aras de justificar su potencial como criterio de segmentación de mercados turísticos de sol y playa. Para medir la personalidad se utilizó el método BIG FIVE y el rasgo de personalidad denominado búsqueda de sensaciones, aplicados a una muestra de 450 turistas de Gran Canaria (España). Los resultados muestran que las características sociodemográficas influyen en la personalidad de los turistas, siendo idónea, por tanto, como criterio de segmentación de mercados. The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of socio-demographic characteristics on tourist personality in order to be used as segmentation criteria for sun and beaches tourists. The method used to measure personality is the “Big 5” and the personality trait referred to as sensation seeking. A sample of 450 tourists was carried out on Gran Canaria (Spain). According to the results, socio-demographic characteristics influence on tourist personality traits, and therefore they could be of interest as a tourist market segmentation criteria.

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The Personality Context of Adolescent Gambling: Better Explained by the Big Five or Sensation-Seeking?

10.31234/osf.io/7dkhs ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Kathleen Wade Reardon ◽

Meggie Wang ◽

Jennifer L Tackett ◽

Clayton Neighbors

Keyword(s):

Personality Traits ◽

Personality Trait ◽

Sensation Seeking ◽

Online Survey ◽

Latent Class ◽

Gambling Behavior ◽

Adolescent Gambling ◽

Normal Range ◽

Personality Differences ◽

Maximum Variance

Adolescent gambling is a serious and increasingly common problem. Studies in adults have found several within- and between-person associations between personality and gambling. We aim to extend these findings to a sample of adolescents selected for gambling behavior. Participants consisted of a racially diverse sample of adolescents between the ages of 13 and 17 (n = 227). We collected self-reported information on normal-range personality traits, sensation-seeking, and gambling frequency, severity, and motives in an online survey. Normal-range personality traits were not correlated with gambling, but trait sensation-seeking was positively correlated with gambling. Latent class analyses showed that classes of adolescent gamblers may be differentiated based on personality trait patterns, although these classes were not differentiated on gambling severity or frequency. Finally, in hierarchical analyses, six homogeneous components representing the five normal-range personality traits and sensation-seeking accounted for maximum variance in gambling outcomes. In this model, components representing sensation-seeking and conscientiousness were the only significant unique predictors of gambling-related outcomes. Our findings suggest that subgroups of adolescent gamblers may be distinguished based on personality trait patterns before the emergence of problematic gambling. In other words, personality differences may reflect an early predisposition to divergent pathways to adolescent gambling. Our findings concur with previous work and underscore the importance of sensation-seeking as a particularly important risk factor of initiation and escalation of adolescent gambling.

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