Who takes health risks? A probe into eight personality types

By M. Vollrath, S. Torgersen. 2002

242 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology

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In Applied Psychology

1. Aysel Tikir
2. S. Weston
3. Joshua J. Jackson
4. Joshua A. Weller
5. M. Hatzenbuehler

In Clinical Psychology

1. Aysel Tikir
2. S. Weston
3. D. Hope
4. Vincent Egan
5. Joshua J. Jackson
6. Joshua A. Weller

Citations in the corpus

• Identification of the healthy neurotic: Personality traits predict smoking after disease onset (2015, background): “This study replicates previous findings that healthy neurotics smoke less (Terracciano & Costa, 2004; Vollrath & Torgersen, 2002).”
• Predicting domain-specific risk taking with the HEXACO personality structure (2011, background): “We observed significant negative correlations with risk taking and perceived benefits for all risk domains, and with risk perceptions for the health/safety and ethical domains, extending previous research (e.g., Chauvin, Hermand, & Mullet, 2007; Lauriola & Levin, 2001; Vollrath & Torgersen, 2002).”
• College students and problematic drinking: a review of the literature. (2003, background): “Likewise, in a sample of university students in Switzerland, those with lower levels of conscientiousness and neuroticism, as well as higher levels of extraversion, were found to report more alcohol consumption, drunkenness, and drunk driving (Vollrath & Torgersen, 2002).”
• The Five Factor Model of personality and evaluation of drug consumption risk (2015, background): “Vollrath & Torgersen [13] observed that the personality traits of N, E, and C are highly correlated with hazardous health behaviours.”