Exploring the Motivations of BASE Jumpers: Extreme Sport Enthusiasts

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Risk-tourism, risk-taking and subjective well-being: A review and synthesis (2017, background): “…tourism and risk activity to be entirely positive, as the activities that ‘risk-inclined’ individuals partake in cause positive emotional and/or cognitive states in those individuals (Johnston, 1992; Lyng, 1990; Lipscombe, 1999; Lupton & Tulloch, 2002; Han & Patterson 2007; Allman et al., 2009).”
The search for freedom in extreme sports : a phenomenological exploration (2013, background): “These perspectives propose that personality traits (e.g., Breivik, 1996; Hunt, 1996; Self et al., 2007), socialization processes (e.g., Allman et al., 2009; Fletcher, 2008; Laurendeau, 2008), and previous experiences work to compel a participant to put his or her life at risk through extreme sports…”
Multiple motives for participating in adventure sports (2012, background): “The first five motives support previous findings by Allman et al. (2009) and Willig (2008) and the latter two motives provide support for the findings of Brymer et al. (2010) and Varley (2011) regarding adventure sport participation motives.”