Animal personality, the consistent between-individual differences in e.g., risk-taking, exploration, antipredator or mating behaviours, has major impacts on fitness of individuals many species. Understanding how to quantify animal personality should help us predicting species interact with their environment and current environmental changes. We adapted existing behavioural assays two Brazilian ...

This paper explores people’s behavior when they are facing financial risks. Through the setting of an economics experiment, people’s willingness to bear financial risks and their tendency to impose risks on others are investigated. The experiment result shows that most people are risk-neutral or risk-averse when making decision under financial environment, and their tendency to impose risks on ...

OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were: (1) to examine the correlates of HIV positivity among participants who injected drugs and engaged in sex work (PWID-SWs) in the SurvUDI network between 2004 and 2016, after stratification by sex, and (2) to compare these correlates with those of sexually active participants who did not engage in sex work (PWID non-SWs). DESIGN AND SETTING This bio...

PURPOSE To date, studies pertaining to possible links between body modification and risk-taking behaviours have been conducted mainly among targeted groups. The objective of this study is to examine the influence of a number of risk-taking behaviours on the probability of being pierced or tattooed among a general adolescent population. METHODS Data come from a cross-sectional study conducted ...

This study aimed to investigate age differences in risk-taking concerning the coronavirus pandemic, while disentangling contribution of risk attitude, objective and numeracy. We tested (i) whether older younger adults differed taking coronavirus-related health risks, (ii) there are risk, attitude numerical ability (iii) these related risk-taking. The was observational, with measures presented a...

Health care providers working with women who have sex with women (WSW) have been ill-informed about a range of sexual health issues for these women. Pertinent issues include sexual behaviours that carry risks of sexually transmissible infection (STI), prevention strategies for safer sex and understanding experiences of abuse. A relative silence continues in all of these areas within the mainstr...

conclusions present study demonstrated that the frequency of tobacco and substance abuse is considerable among iranian university students who thought to be more knowledgeable and concerned about their health. thus, efficient educational programs are needed to reduce the high-risk behaviors before students enter to university. background risky behaviors such as tobacco and substance abuse, whic...

a b s t r a c t “addiction” is a multifaceted complicated disorder with many interrelated causes, as well as environmental and genetic features. several hereditary variables that have an effect on these features might work in together to influence vulnerability and the extent of being an addict. molecular re-sequencing of the latest and formerly researched genes holds a crucial place with regar...

BACKGROUND This study investigated associations among adolescents' self-esteem in 6 domains (peers, school, family, sports/athletics, body image and global self-worth) and risk behaviours related to substance use, bullying, suicidality and sexuality. METHOD A multistage stratified sampling strategy was used to select a representative sample of 939 English-, Afrikaans- and Xhosa-speaking stude...