Risk evaluation and risky behavior of high and low sensation seekers

By Tova Rosenbloom. 2003

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This study was aimed at achieving a better understanding of the role of the mediation of risk evaluation between personality and risk-taking behavior. Fifty-five females and twenty males completed the Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS) and self-report inventory of risk taking in one session and a risk evaluation inventory in another session. The results show a positive correlation between risk taking and sensation seeking and a negative correlation between risk evaluation and sensation seeking. High sensation seekers are found to be higher in risk taking than in risk evaluation while the low sensation seekers are higher in risk evaluation than in risk taking. The meaning and possible implications of these results to the relationship between risk taking and sensation seeking are discussed.

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Citations in the corpus

• Cannabis use, time perspective and risk perception: Evidence of a moderating effect (2006, background): “Self-esteem, for example, seemed to play a moderating role in the link between tobacco consumption and changes in risk perceptions (Gibbons, Tami & Alida, 1997), or sensation seeking appeared as moderating the link between risk evaluation and risky behaviours (Rosenbloom, 2003).”
• Children’s risk‐taking behaviour: implications for early childhood policy and practice (2006, background): “High sensation seekers may also perceive their risk as less than others because of their superior skills and abilities (Rosenbloom, 2003).”