Higher risk-taking behavioursbehaviors and sensation seeking needs in collegiate student-athletes with a history of multiple sport-related concussions

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.

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P.005 Lisdexamfetamine precipitated pathological gambling

Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques ◽

10.1017/cjn.2018.107 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 45 (s2) ◽

pp. S17-S17 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

F Chaudhary ◽

A Hirsch ◽

W MacPherson ◽

J Nayati

Keyword(s):

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ◽

Nucleus Accumbens ◽

Pathological Gambling ◽

Risk Taking ◽

Gambling Behavior ◽

Hyperactivity Disorder ◽

Aged Woman ◽

Middle Aged Woman ◽

History Of ◽

Mental Status Examination

Background: Lisdexamfetamine has not heretofore been reported to cause pathological gambling. Such a case is presented. Methods: A middle-aged woman, without past interest in gambling, gaming, or risk taking behavior, with childhood history of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder presented with difficulty focusing and concentrating. Lisdexamfetamine was started at 20 mg daily and gradually escalated due to lack of efficacy. At 70 mg daily, she began binging on sweets and gambling all day, every day at nearby riverboats, which she had never frequented previously. Upon reduction to 60 mg daily, the gambling resolved. Ritalin 20 mg every morning and 50 mg every afternoon was used without gambling reoccurrence. Results: Mental Status Examination: Alert, cooperative and oriented x 3 with good eye contact. Euthymic, without mania, thoughts logical and goal directed. Conclusions: Enhanced dopamine in the nucleus accumbens may induce hedonic activities including gambling, binging on sweets, or sexual activity (Moore et al. 2014). Lisdexamfetamine has been described to induce mania, and pathological gambling may have been an isolated manifestation of early mania. In those who have recently begun lisdexamfetamine, query should be made regarding change in gambling behavior and in those who are pathologically gambling, investigation should be entertained as to whether they are taking lisdexamfetamine.

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Longitudinal Increases in Parent–Child Relationship Quality and Sensation Seeking Interact to Increase Risk-Taking During the College Transition

Emerging Adulthood ◽

10.1177/2167696817705954 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 66-71 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

João F. Guassi Moreira ◽

Eva H. Telzer

Keyword(s):

Relationship Quality ◽

College Transition ◽

Risk Taking ◽

Sensation Seeking ◽

Risky Behaviors ◽

Parent Child Relationship ◽

First Semester ◽

Child Relationship ◽

Risk Taking Behaviors ◽

Parent Child

We tested two competing predictions of whether changes in parent–child relationship quality buffer or exacerbate the association between sensation-seeking and risk-taking behaviors as individuals gain more independence during the high school–college transition. In the current longitudinal study, 287 participants completed self-report measures of sensation seeking, risk-taking, and parent–child relationship quality with their parents prior to starting college and again during their first semester. Overall, students displayed increases in risky behaviors, which were predicted by sensation seeking. Changes in relationship quality moderated the association between sensation seeking and risk-taking, such that sensation seeking predicted higher risk-taking behaviors during the first semester of college, but only for those who reported increases in relationship quality across the college transition. These results suggest that increased relationship quality may have an inadvertent spillover effect by interacting with sensation seeking to increase risky behaviors.

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Dual Trajectories of Reactive and Proactive Aggression from Mid-childhood to Early Adolescence: Relations to Sensation Seeking, Risk Taking, and Moral Reasoning

Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology ◽

10.1007/s10802-015-0079-7 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 44 (4) ◽

pp. 663-675 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Lixian Cui ◽

Tyler Colasante ◽

Tina Malti ◽

Denis Ribeaud ◽

Manuel P. Eisner

Keyword(s):

Moral Reasoning ◽

Early Adolescence ◽

Risk Taking ◽

Sensation Seeking ◽

Proactive Aggression ◽

Dual Trajectories ◽

Reactive And Proactive Aggression

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Sexual Coercion in the College Population: A Form of Risk-Taking Behavior

Journal of Interpersonal Violence ◽

10.1177/0886260517720736 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 35 (23-24) ◽

pp. 5276-5291

Author(s):

Alisa R. Garner ◽

Laura C. Spiller ◽

Patrick Williams

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Risk Taking ◽

Sexual Coercion ◽

Sensation Seeking ◽

Outcome Expectation ◽

College Population ◽

Risk Taking Behavior ◽

Reckless Behavior ◽

Decision Making Model ◽

The Relationship

The purpose of this study was to examine whether a decision-making model of risk-taking behavior, specifically impulsivity, positive and negative outcome expectation, and sensation seeking, can be extended to motivation for perpetration of sexual coercion. Participants included 276 sexually active college students between the ages of 18 and 25 years old who completed a set of questionnaires: (a) Sexual Experiences Survey, (b) Sensation Seeking Scales, (c) Cognitive Appraisal of Risky Events, (d) Barratt Impulsiveness Scale, and (e) Reckless Behavior Questionnaire. Multiple regression analyses were utilized to examine the relationship between these decision-making models and sexually coercive behaviors. General risk-taking behaviors were positively correlated with acts of sexual coercion, r = .16, p < .01. The predictor variables accounted for a significant amount of the variance in sexual coercion, R2 = .11, F(4, 246) = 7.57, p < .01. Only sensation seeking contributed unique variance to our model of sexual coercion, β = .27, t = 4.06, p < .01. Interventions to reduce sexual coercion may be more successful if they target those high in risk-taking. Similarly, prevention efforts informed by research on how to engage and hold the attention of sensation seeking youth may be more successful.

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Sensation Seeking, Risk Taking, and Health

Contributions to Psychology and Medicine - Individual Differences, Stress, and Health Psychology ◽

10.1007/978-1-4612-3824-9_4 ◽

1988 ◽

pp. 72-88 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Marvin Zuckerman

Keyword(s):

Risk Taking ◽

Sensation Seeking

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How Perceived Individual Safety Attitude Helps to Explain The Relationship Between Sensation Seeking and Risk-Taking Propensity in The Prediction of Individual Work Performance

Jurnal RAP (Riset Aktual Psikologi Universitas Negeri Padang) ◽

10.24036/rapun.v11i2.110589 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 191

Author(s):

Woromita Fathlistya ◽

Martina Dwi Mustika

Keyword(s):

Risk Taking ◽

Sensation Seeking ◽

Work Performance ◽

Individual Performance ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Self Report ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Individual Work ◽

Safety Attitude ◽

The Relationship

Understanding the attitudes of individuals toward safety is important for hospital prevention programs and could reduce safety-related accidents. This study investigates the effects of perceived individual safety attitude in explaining the relationship between sensation seeking and risk-taking propensity for rewards in predicting individual performance. An on-line cross-sectional study was undertaken in which 177 nurses who completed an objective task (BART) and self-report questionnaires. Path analysis results revealed that perceived individual safety attitude influenced the relationship between both sensation seeking and risk-taking propensity in predicting individual performance. Nurses with both sensation seeking and risk-taking propensity for rewards have negative perceptions toward individual safety attitude, which resulted in poor individual work performances. It is indicated that encourage performance by rewards is not always effective.

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