The current research evaluates the consistency of different constructs affecting risk taking in individuals' experiential decisions across different levels of risk. Specifically, we contrast three major views concerning the psychological constructs that underlie risk taking behavior. The first is the classical economic approach which views risk as the sensitivity to differences in variance. The...

The present study examined physical dating aggression in different adolescent relationships and assessed linear, threshold, and moderator risk models for recurrent aggressive relationships. The 621 participants (59% girls, 41% boys) were drawn from a 1-year longitudinal survey of Canadian high school youths ranging from Grade 9 through Grade 12. Approximately 13% of participants reported recurr...

crop insurance is one of the best strategies to tackle farm risks and encourage producers to adopt modern production technologies. in present study, a sample of 224 insured and uninsured pistachio growers was selected for interview and collected required data using a simple random sampling method. then a logit multinomial model was used to assess factors affecting the choice of supplemental ins...

Abstract Health risk exposure during the global COVID-19 pandemic has required people to adopt self-isolation. Public authorities have therefore had difficult task of sustaining such protective but stressful behaviour. Evidence shows that besides egoistic drives, motivation for self-isolation behaviour could be altruistic. However, type and role prosocial in current is underestimated its intera...

BACKGROUND THE OBJECTIVES ARE TO DETERMINE IF: 1) accepting disability as a part of aging is associated with frailty; and 2) accepting disability is associated with becoming frail over a five-year period. METHODS Secondary analysis of a prospective cohort study of 1,751 community-dwelling adults aged 65+. Participants were asked to rate their agreement with the statement: "When you reach my a...

Electronic government or e-government has long been known as a breakthrough of a new form of communication and transaction between the government and citizens, the government and industries, and among the government agencies. Simply, e-government is meant not only to help the government to accomplish its daily administrative activities but also to provide an easier way to communicate with exter...

The perception of multiple sclerosis (MS) severity and risk associated with therapies might influence shared decision making in different countries. We investigated the perception of MS severity and factors associated with risk acceptance in Brazil in 96 patients with relapsing-remitting MS using a standardized questionnaire and compared this with two European cohorts. Multiple sclerosis was pe...

Credit risk scoring has gone a long way since Fair Isaac introduced the first commercial scorecard to assist banks in making their credit lending decisions over 50 years ago. It now becomes the cornerstone in modern credit risk management thanks to the advancement in computing technologies and availability of affordable computing power. Credit scoring is no longer only applied in assessing lend...