Risk taking and Women’s Menstrual Cycle: Near Ovulation, Women Avoid a Doubtful Man

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Guéguen
Keyword(s):  
Menstrual Cycle ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Waiting Room ◽  
Fertile Phase ◽  
Risk Taking Behaviors

Studies using surveys in which risk taking behaviors were measured show a decrease in risk taking during the ovulatory phase of the women’s menstrual cycle. In this study, the distance between a woman and a shady confederate was measured in a waiting room. Then, a LH test was done in order to measure the participant’s fertility risk. Results showed that near ovulation, participants sat further away from the confederate, revealing that women in their fertile phase displayed behavior to decrease the risk of sexual assault.

Risk-Taking Behaviors in Adolescents

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin M. von Ranson ◽  
Susan L. Rosenthal
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Risk Taking Behaviors

Adolescents’ Future Negative Time Perspective and Risk-Taking Behaviors: The Roles of Coping Styles and Self-Control

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Dou ◽  
Ming-Chen Zhang ◽  
Yue Liang
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Longitudinal Design ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Total N ◽  
Negative Coping ◽  
Risk Taking Behaviors ◽  
Negative Time

The association between future time perspective and risk-taking behaviors has received extensive empirical attention. However, the underlying mechanism that links future negative time perspective to risk-taking behaviors are complex and not well-understood. To address this gap, we adopted a longitudinal design examined the association between FNTP and risk-taking behaviors, and the roles of coping styles and self-control in this association among Chinese adolescents (total N = 581, 46.3% females). Results showed that FNTP at wave 1 predicted risk-taking behavior at wave 3 via positive and negative coping styles at wave 2. Furthermore, adolescents with low self-control and used negative coping strategies prefer to engage in risk-taking behaviors as compared to their high self-control counterparts. Taken together, these research findings underscore the importance of considering influence of the future negative time perspective on adolescents’ risk-taking behaviors, and provided important implications for developing the preventions and interventions for reducing adolescents’ risk-taking behaviors.

Risk Factors for a Positive Hepatitis C Status in Fishermen in Kuantan Malaysia

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-237
Author(s):  
Priya Lall ◽  
Rumana Saifi ◽  
Diva Baggio ◽  
Samantha Fitzsimmons Schoenberger ◽  
Martin Choo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hepatitis C ◽  
Confidence Interval ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Odds Ratio ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Adjusted Odds Ratio ◽  
Environmental Drivers ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Risk Taking Behaviors ◽  
Risk Communities

Malaysia currently has an estimated hepatitis C virus (HCV) prevalence of 1.3% with an infected population of 384,000. Fishermen in Malaysia are at risk of HCV infection due to injection drug use and disproportionately high rates of incarceration. This study used quantitative data from Project WAVES, a large-scale mixed methods project charting environmental drivers of risk-taking behaviors among a respondent-driven sample of 406 fishermen in Malaysia. Over a quarter of participants (27.9%) reported injecting drugs in the past month; 49.8% of the sample tested positive for HCV. Respondents who had previously been arrested displayed increased odds of being HCV-positive (adjusted odds ratio = 4.79, confidence Interval = 2.46-9.35). Participants who reported being in lock-up displayed close to 6-fold odds of being HCV-infected (adjusted odds ratio = 5.49, confidence interval = 2.77-10.90, P < .001). These findings underscore the need for policies and structural interventions targeting the negative effects of aggressive incarceration contributing to the burden of HCV among high-risk communities.

scholarly journals Reducing sexual risk taking behaviors among adolescents who engage in transactional sex in post-conflict Liberia

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharine A. Atwood ◽  
Stephen B. Kennedy ◽  
Steve Shamblen ◽  
Curtis H. Taylor ◽  
Monica Quaqua ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Risk ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Transactional Sex ◽  
Sexual Risk Taking ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Risk Taking Behaviors
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