Changes in Sensation Seeking and Risk-Taking Propensity Predict Increases in Alcohol Use Among Early Adolescents

Helmet Wearing Increases Risk Taking and Sensation Seeking

Humans adapt their risk-taking behaviour based on perceptions of safety; this risk compensation phenomenon is typified by people taking more risks when using protective equipment. Existing studies have looked at people who know they are using safety equipment, and have specifically examined changes in behaviours against which that equipment might reduce risk. We demonstrate risk-taking increase...

Longitudinal trajectories of sensation seeking, risk taking propensity, and impulsivity across early to middle adolescence.

Adolescent substance use and abuse show associations with increases in disinhibitory constructs, including sensation seeking, risk taking propensity, and impulsivity. However, the longitudinal trajectories of these constructs from early to middle adolescence remain largely unknown. Thus, the current study examined these developmental trajectories in 277 adolescents (Mage=11.00 at Wave 1), over ...

Comparison of sensation seeking and high risk behaviors in normal and delinquent children and adolescents

Abstract: Background and Aim: Our lives from birth to death are accompanied by positive and negative emotions. For every human being, there is something happening in daily life, hearing news, passing thoughts and doing all that. They can create emotions or emotions in the negative sense of these emotions for children and adolescents in the form of delinquency. This study was conducted as a comp...

High-risk sexual behaviour & sensation seeking among heavy alcohol users.

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES An association has been shown between alcohol use and high-risk sexual behaviour. One of the important variables that might mediate risky sexual behaviour among alcohol users is the sensation-seeking dimension of personality. This study was undertaken with the aim to assess the relationship between sensation seeking and sexual risk taking among heavy alcohol users admitt...

Sensation seeking in adolescents