The report presents the results of a survey of 3,700 licensed drivers in Victoria, Australia, concerning their experiences of speed and drink-driving enforcement and their perceptions of the risk of detection for speeding and drink-driving. Exploratory analyses of the data indicate that there were five groups of correlated items. These related to the perceived risk of detection for drink drivin...

BACKGROUND Young multiethnic college women (YMCW) are at risk for STDs and HIV secondary to high-risk sexual behaviors that are related to developmental issues such as invincibility, low perceived risk, and substance use. METHOD One hundred YMCW on a southern California university campus completed surveys that examined variables that impacted their sexual risk. RESULTS The study yielded man...

Owing to the ever-increasing prevalence of social media use, social commerce has become an important part of e-commerce. This study endeavors to explore the impact of social media quality and social support on the social commerce (SC) intention directly and through the variable of perceived risk. The sample included 214 social media users in Isfahan collected through simple random sampling meth...

Background: Middle-aged and older adults often mistakenly underestimate the risk to which they are exposed when engage in risky sexual behaviors. Furthermore, a reliable valid measurement of construct is necessary capture its scope meaning. Objective: To validate structure Perceived Risk Scale for STIs middle-aged adults, identify their perceived STIs, relationship with some sociodemographic ch...

Various data scandals have raised people’s risk perceptions all around the world. Due to the sensitivity of location information, these concerns are particularly significant in the context of mobile location-based services (LBS) and are generally considered a major inhibiting factor for their usage. The aim of this study is to investigate different risk facets that encompass a special type of L...

OBJECTIVE Researchers argue that gain-framed messages should be more effective for prevention behaviors, while loss frames should be more effective for detection behaviors (Rothman & Salovey, 1997). Evidence for this taxonomy has been mixed. This study examines whether the effects of gain- and loss-framed messages on HIV-testing intentions is moderated by perceived risk of a positive result. ...