scholarly journals The off-prescription use of modafinil: An online survey of perceived risks and benefits

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. e0227818 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel D. Teodorini ◽  
Nicola Rycroft ◽  
James H. Smith-Spark
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Perceived Risks ◽  
Risks And Benefits

scholarly journals Perceived Risks and Benefits in IPV and HIV Research: Listening to the Voices of HIV-Positive African American Women

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 511-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole M. Overstreet ◽  
Mukadder Okuyan ◽  
Celia B. Fisher
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Research Participation ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Perceived Risks ◽  
American Women ◽  
Risks And Benefits ◽  
Women Living With Hiv

African American women living with HIV were asked to reflect on the perceived risks and benefits of research participation after completing a study examining socially sensitive issues in their lives, including intimate partner violence (IPV) and HIV. Administration of standardized quantitative instruments yielded positive responses to the research experience. However, qualitative assessments of perceived risks and benefits revealed more nuanced responses. For example, confidentiality concerns were more prominent in open-ended responses as was participants’ positive attitudes toward monetary compensation. In addition, some women reported that study participation provided them with new insights about their experiences with IPV. Findings suggest that empirical studies on research protections involving potentially distressing and socially sensitive experiences with vulnerable populations require both quantitative and qualitative assessments of perceived risks and benefits. We discuss implications of our findings for ethics practices in trauma-related research among populations with multiple social vulnerabilities.

scholarly journals Perceived risks and benefits of emerging technologies in professional psychology

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Dickey ◽  
Mark R. Mcminn ◽  
Winston Z. Seegobin ◽  
Kathleen A. Gathercoal
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Professional Psychology ◽  
Perceived Risks ◽  
Risks And Benefits

scholarly journals Risk taking, perceived risks, and perceived benefits across adolescence: A domain-specific risk-return approach

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neeltje Blankenstein ◽  
Jorien van Hoorn ◽  
Tycho Dekkers ◽  
Arne Popma ◽  
Brenda Jansen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Perceived Benefits ◽  
Perceived Risks ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Risk Return ◽  
Risks And Benefits ◽  
Specific Risk ◽  
Adolescent Risk

Adolescence is a phase of heightened risk taking compared to childhood and adulthood, which is even more prominent for specific adolescent populations, such as youth with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Until now little is known about how perceived risks and benefits relate to adolescent risk taking. Here, we used the adolescent version of the Domain-Specific Risk-Taking (DoSpeRT) scale to investigate the likelihood of risk taking, perceived risks, perceived benefits, and their tradeoff in two studies. In the first longitudinal study, 375 11-to-23-year-olds completed the DOSPERT one up to three times. A second biannual longitudinal study included 180 11-to-20-year old boys diagnosed with ADHD (N=81), and an IQ and age-matched control group (N=99). Using mixed-effects models, we found a peak in likelihood of risk taking in mid-to-late adolescence, but only in the health/safety, ethical, and social domains of risk taking, with similar curvilinear patterns in perceived benefits (peaks) and perceived risks (dips). In both cohorts, perceived risks and benefits were significant predictors of risk taking in all domains, and perceived benefits related more strongly to risk taking than perceived risks. Moreover, perceived benefits increasingly related to risk taking across adolescence, a pattern that was found in recreational risk taking in both studies. Generally, we observed little differences in risk taking, and perceived risks and benefits between the ADHD and control group. However, risk-return models indicated that adolescents with ADHD displayed a heightened likelihood of risk-taking behavior in the social domain, and their perceived risks related less strongly to risk taking, relative to typically developing adolescents. Taken together, our results are consistent with the developmental peak in risk taking observed in real life and highlight the role of perceived risks and benefits in risk taking. These findings provide tentative entry points for possible prevention and intervention.

Can the Use of Social Media be Useful in Universities' Career Services?

2017 ◽  
pp. 234-247
Author(s):  
Ginevra Gravili
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Career Services ◽  
Time Dimension ◽  
Perceived Risks ◽  
Risks And Benefits ◽  
New Space ◽  
Social Media Tools ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Legal And Ethical Issues

Social media tools are becoming an important presence in recruitment processes, transforming them. They allow an instant sharing of ideas, opinions, knowledge and experiences, creating a new “space-time” dimension that could be translated in a new way (additional) to “recruit” workers. Although there are many benefits and promises from social media, however several risks are associated with their use. The ambiguity related to legal and ethical issues of social media, at the same time, contains the enthusiasm related to the potentialities that social media offer. In particular, this chapter aims at analysing the perceived risks and benefits of social media by students to understand if it can be useful for University Career Services (referred to UCS) to use these tools in job placement. The analysis is conducted in five countries: Netherlands, Sweden, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Croatia. It can be useful for managers of universities and firms to understand whether the presence of Universities on social media by students and firms is positive or not.

Perceived risks and benefits of the use of honey for infants

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 201-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Robinson ◽  
A. Lorenc ◽  
R. Kumar ◽  
M. Blair
Keyword(s):  
Perceived Risks ◽  
Risks And Benefits

scholarly journals Emerging Adults and COVID-19: The Role of Individualism-Collectivism on Perceived Risks and Psychological Maladjustment

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. 3497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Germani ◽  
Livia Buratta ◽  
Elisa Delvecchio ◽  
Claudia Mazzeschi
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Asymptomatic Carrier ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Perceived Risks ◽  
Psychological Maladjustment ◽  
Medical Reports ◽  
Common Goals

The outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has dramatically changed our habits and routines. Uncertainty, insecurity, instability for the present and future, and reduced autonomy and self-directedness, are common feelings at the time of COVID-19. These aspects are very important during emerging adulthood. In spite of the fact that medical reports suggest that youth are less prone to experience COVID-19 infections, emerging adults might be at higher risk for their psychological adjustment. Emerging adults showed higher concerns about their role as a possible asymptomatic carrier than being positive with COVID-19 themselves. Both worries and concerns about COVID-19 and psychological maladjustment may be related to cultural factors. Individualism, collectivism, equality, and hierarchy seem to be meaningful perspectives to take into account. A total of 1183 Italian emerging adults were asked to fill out an online survey during the second week of the national lockdown in Italy. Results showed they reported an accurate perceived knowledge about COVID-19. At the same time, they showed higher worries and concerns about COVID-19 for their relatives, followed by more general/social worries. The lowest score included worries about COVID-19 related to themselves. State anxiety and stress levels were above the normal cutoff, confirming the challenges that emerging adults are facing during the pandemic. On one hand, emerging adults’ collectivistic orientation was related to higher perceived risks of infection; on the other hand, it predicted lower psychological maladjustment, controlling for socio-demographic variables. The study suggests that to fight the COVID-19 pandemic and decrease levels of psychological maladjustment in emerging adulthood, individuals’ cultural orientation such as the wish of sharing common goals with others, interdependence, and sociability, have to be emphasized and promoted as protective factors.

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