Role of thrill and adventure seeking in risky work-related driving behaviours

Wishart, Darren E.; Somoray, Klaire; Rowland, Bevan

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2016.08.033

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“…The thrill and adventure seeking subtrait, which relates to the desire to engage in risky physical activities ( Zuckerman, 1994 ; Wishart et al, 2017 ), appeared as a significant predictor of recreational RT. The recreational domain involves risky physical activities and dangerous situations, such as “Bungee jumping off a tall bridge.” This relation is consistent with other studies that found positive relations between the thrill and adventure seeking subtrait and risky driving and sport behaviours ( Zuckerman, 1994 ; Wishart et al, 2017 ). Disinhibition, defined as a rule-breaking tendency ( Donohew et al, 2000 ), appeared as a RT predictor in the ethical, financial, health, and social domains.…”

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“… Zuckerman (1994) identified four dimensions of the sensation-seeking trait: thrill and adventure seeking, experience seeking, disinhibition, and boredom susceptibility. The thrill and adventure seeking dimension reflects a desire to engage in physical activities and is positively related to risky behaviours in driving and sports ( Zuckerman, 1994 ; Wishart et al, 2017 ). The experience-seeking subtrait has been shown to be a predictor of the openness personality trait, due to its relation to arousal seeking through the mind and senses ( Zuckerman, 1984 ; Roberti, 2004 ).…”

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Why Do We Take Risks? Perception of the Situation and Risk Proneness Predict Domain-Specific Risk Taking

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Risk taking (RT) is a component of the decision-making process in situations that involve uncertainty and in which the probability of each outcome – rewards and/or negative consequences – is already known. The influence of cognitive and emotional processes in decision making may affect how risky situations are addressed. First, inaccurate assessments of situations may constitute a perceptual bias in decision making, which might influence RT. Second, there seems to be consensus that a proneness bias exists, known as risk proneness, which can be defined as the propensity to be attracted to potentially risky activities. In the present study, we take the approach that risk perception and risk proneness affect RT behaviours. The study hypothesises that locus of control, emotion regulation, and executive control act as perceptual biases in RT, and that personality, sensation seeking, and impulsivity traits act as proneness biases in RT. The results suggest that locus of control, emotion regulation and executive control influence certain domains of RT, while personality influences in all domains except the recreational, and sensation seeking and impulsivity are involved in all domains of RT. The results of the study constitute a foundation upon which to build in this research area and can contribute to the increased understanding of human behaviour in risky situations.

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Why Do We Take Risks? Perception of the Situation and Risk Proneness Predict Domain-Specific Risk Taking

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“…Zuckerman (1994) identified four dimensions of the sensation-seeking trait: thrill and adventure seeking, experience seeking, disinhibition, and boredom susceptibility. The thrill and adventure seeking dimension reflects a desire to engage in physical activities and is positively related to risky behaviours in driving and sports (Zuckerman, 1994;Wishart et al, 2017). The experience-seeking subtrait has been shown to be a predictor of the openness personality trait, due to its relation to arousal seeking through the mind and senses (Zuckerman, 1984;Roberti, 2004).…”

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“…It also appears as significant predictor of RT in academically dishonest behaviours, gambling and health RT. Costa and McCrae, 1992Wishart et al, 2017Zuckerman, 1994Netter et al, 1996Pedersen et al, 1989Popham et al, 2011Roberti, 2004Zuckerman, 1978Zuckerman, 1984Bancroft, et al, 2003Bonnaire and Barrault, 2018De Vries et al, 2009Donohew et al, 2000Etter et al, 2006Hittner and Swickert, 2006Kopstein et al, 2001Lozano et al, 2017Orlebeke 1990Popham et al, 2011Roberti, 2004Weber et al, 2002Wolfgang, 1988Zuckerman, 2008 Chapter 1 Boredom susceptibility is related to low tolerance towards repetitive and routine tasks, which has been related to an approach towards risk in sports contexts. Guszkowska et al, 2010Zuckerman, 2006 Impulsivity: Is the tendency to make quick and unplanned responses to internal or external stimuli, regardless of the negative effects of these responses.…”

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