Sensation seeking has been widely studied when investigating individual differences in the propensity for taking risks. However, risk taking can serve many different goals beyond the simple management of physiological arousal. The present study is an investigation of affect self-regulation as a predictor of risk-taking behaviors in high-risk sport. Risk-taking behaviors, negative affectivity, e...

建設現場では労働災害防止のための様々な工学的対策や管理的対策が実施されているが，作業者がリスクを承知で不安全な行動をとるリスクテイキング行動に対してはこれらの対策で十分に防ぐことができない．そのため，作業者のリスクテイキング行動の促進要因と安全行動の促進要因を定量的に調べ，これらを基に有効な安全対策を検討する必要がある．本研究は定量的な検討のための予備調査として，ベテランの建設作業者18名を対象に，脚立作業のリスクテイキング行動についてインタビュー調査を行い，リスクテイキング行動と安全行動の促進要因を抽出した．その結果，リスクテイキング行動の促進要因は，ベテラン作業者，初心者ともに，4カテゴリー（【作業者の内的要因】，【経験的要因】，【状況的要因】，【他者の影響】）が抽出されたが，初心者のほうがベテラン作業者よりも多くのサブカテゴリーが認められた（初心者：14サブカテゴリー，ベテラン...

The goal of the study was three-fold: to investigate medical student behaviors (e.g., changing answers) while taking high-stakes multiple-choice exams; to determine if specific behaviors were associated with performance on the exam; and to determine if there are associations of learning style, as measured by Kolb’s Learning Style Inventory (LSI), with test-taking activities. We developed high-s...

This paper critically examines how risk-taking behaviors can be modeled from a decision-making perspective. We first review several applications of a decision perspective to the study of risk-taking behaviors, including studies that investigate consequence generation and the components of the overall utility (i.e., consequence, desirability, and likelihood) of risk-taking and studies that inves...

conclusions the results of this study suggested that parental monitoring and affiliation with deviant peers largely explained sexual risk taking among adolescents. therefore, prevention efforts aimed at reducing risky sex should compose of these factors. in fact, the results suggested that earlier prevention efforts may be warranted. results according to the results, about one-fifth of subjects...