A motivational perspective on risky behaviors: the role of personality and affect regulatory processes.

By M. Cooper, V. Agocha, M. Sheldon. Journal of Personality, 2000

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Motivations to eat: Scale development and validation (2003, background): “The psychological structure ofmotivations in both domains might have common features, even though the behaviors themselves are quite distinct (cf. Cooper, Agocha, & Sheldon, 2000 ).”
The development of risk-taking: A multi-perspective review (2006, background): “21 INT Various (e.g., sex, alcohol, cigarettes, and crimes) Cooper et al. (2000) 1,666 17–26 INT Alcohol and sex Stanford and Barratt (1992) 72 Adults SR and criminal records Major Crimes, alcohol, and drug use 314 T.W. Boyer / Developmental Review 26 (2006) 291–345 Biological bases of risk-taking…”
Why do young people drink? A review of drinking motives. (2005, background): “…that, while effective in the short term, drinking to cope as a way to compensate for deficits in problem-focused coping leads to adverse long-term consequences because the discrepancies that foster negative affects have never been adequately addressed (Cooper et al., 1995; Kassel et al., 2000).”
Emotion-based Dispositions to Rash Action: Positive and Negative Urgency (2008, positive): “Indeed, negative affect states have been shown to correlate with a greater frequency of many maladaptive, addictive behaviors, including alcohol and drug abuse (Colder & Chassin, 1997; Cooper, 1994; Cooper et al., 2000; Martin & Sher, 1994; Peveler & Fairburn, 1990).”