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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"Sensation seeking"”.
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Sensation seeking and field of study
… correlation between the personality trait of sensation seeking and a student's field of study. The literature review shows the strong connection between both how personality can influence our career choice and how sensation seeking can affect multiple aspects of our lives. There were 117 Rowan …
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Interrelationships Between Sensation Seeking and Psychopathy
<p>Psychopathic and sensation seeking traits are often correlated; however, sensation seeking alone is not inherently pathological. This study seeks to investigate possible moderating variables between individuals who are high on sensation seeking but low on measures of psychopathic or antisocial …
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Sensation Seeking and a Real World Stressor: Endocrine and Physiological Effects
… mechanisms that mediate the process by which the sensation seeking trait culminates in behavior. We used the Sensation Seeking Scales to assess the SS trait in individuals who expressed a desire to skydive. We obtained measures of autonomic (heart rate) and endocrine (salivary cortisol) activity …
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Sensation Seeking, Early Pregnancy and Criminal Justice System Involvement Among Latino Youth
… examined the relationship between the level of sensation seeking, early pregnancy, and criminal justice system involvement among Latino youth. It is a secondary analysis of data that comes from the Boricua Youth Study, an ongoing longitudinal study of Puerto Rican children and preadolescents …
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Impact of the Big 5 and Sensation Seeking Personality Traits on Everyday Deception
… influence of the Big 5 personality traits and Sensation Seeking tendencies on an individual’s likelihood to engage in Everyday Deception. While previous research has investigated the relationships between the Big 5 and deception as well as Sensation Seeking and deception, no prior research has …
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Artificial Tanning Salon Behaviors, Intentions, and Attitudes in Terms of Sensuousness and Sensation Seeking.
… warmth sensuousness, physical sensuousness, and sensation seeking to individuals' tanning salon behaviors, intentions, and attitudes among undergraduates at a Southeastern university.</p> <p>Females, high sensation seekers, those high in warmth sensuousness, and those with darker skin types were …
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The Relationship of Social Context and Sensation Seeking to Indices to College Student Alcohol Abuse
… drinking and the personality trait known as sensation seeking. These measures were used to explain alcohol use intensity, frequency of alcohol impaired driving, and the frequency of riding with an impaired driver. It was found that during the twelve month period prior to the survey, eighty …
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Adolescent Psychopathy in an Adjudicated Male Population: The Role of Sensation Seeking, Impulsivity, and Externalizing Disorders
… of this study was to investigate the roles that sensation seeking, impulsivity, ADHD, conduct disorder, and oppositional defiant disorder have on adolescents classified as psychopaths. The participants consisted of 79 adjudicated male adolescents in a maximum-security facility. As hypothesized, …
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The Relationship of the Sensation Seeking Personality Motive to Burnout, Injury and Job Satisfaction among Firefighters
… study was to determine the relationships among sensation seeking, burnout, injury, and job satisfaction among firefighters. Participants included 93 firefighters from a southeastern fire department. Each participant was asked to fill out a packet of self-report surveys including a demographic …
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The genetics of sports behaviour : the role of the DRD4 gene in sensation seeking in skiers
… influence over personality traits, especially sensation seeking. One gene thought to influence this behavioural trait is the dopamine-4-receptor gene (DRD4), in which variants have been associated with sensation seeking and novelty seeking in some, but not all studies. The inconsistencies …
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Some Men Just Want To Watch The World Burn: The Role Of Sensation Seeking, Impulsivity, And Empathy In Cyberbullying
This study explored the potential role of sensation seeking, impulsivity, and empathy in cyberbullying behavior directed towards known and unknown persons. Sensation seeking is one’s propensity to desire novel situations and stimuli. Impulsivity is one’s tendency to engage in behavior without …
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Ethnic Identity, Gay Identity and Sexual Sensation Seeking: HIV Risk-taking Predictors Among Men of Color Who Have Sex with Men
… among ethnic identity, gay identity, sexual sensation seeking, and HIV risk-taking behaviors among 302 men of color recruited from gay bars, bathhouses, community agencies, and the 1998 United States Conference on AIDS. The sample included 24% African American, 28% Latino, 25% Asian/ Pacific …
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The Effects of Exercise-Induced Heart Rate Arousal on Stimulation Seeking and Aggression in College Students
The current study aimed to test sensation seeking as a mediator in the relationship between arousal and aggression. In addition, an experimental design was used to test whether arousal can be manipulated to alter levels of sensation seeking and aggression, both measured behaviorally. A sample of …
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Values And Problem Behaviors In Hong Kong Adolescents
<p>The present study examined sensation seeking, psychological problem behaviors, values orientation, and problem behaviors of smoking, alcohol use, and delinquency among Hong Kong adolescents studying in high school of two different ability levels. Adolescents (N = 1385) from a band one and band …
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Personal And Social Factors In Risk-Taking Behaviors Of Emerging Adults
… and personal and social factors such as sensation seeking, peer influence, perceived general resistance to peer influence, perceived self-efficacy to resist risky behavior, and emotion regulation. The participants were 427 emerging- adult, undergraduate students 18 to 25 years of age (who …
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Motivations for Cannabis Use in Emerging Adulthood
… risk factors (i.e., anxiety sensitivity, sensation seeking) and cannabis consequences. Findings from this study uncovered two motives that explain the relationship between these personality factors and consequences – coping motives (e.g., to relieve low mood) influenced the relationship …
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Amygdala and Prefrontal Cortex Macrostructure and White Matter Microstructure Development in Typical and Atypical Children and Adolescents
… timing underlies elevated adolescent sensation-seeking behaviour. Few prior studies have examined maturational timing differences between grey matter regions and the white matter tracts that move information between them. Further research is required to understand maturational timing …
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Locomotor activity does not predict individual differences in morphine self-administration in rats
… more effective preventions and treatments. Sensation seeking has been implicated in addiction to several drugs of abuse, yet its relationship with individual differences in opioid addiction vulnerability has not been well established. The primary goal of this study was to evaluate the …
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Validity Study of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory in a Noncriminal Population
… related concepts (psychopathy, empathy, sensation seeking and driving anger) were examined to evaluate its concurrent and construct validity. A positive correlation was found between the PPI and the Self-Rep0l1 Psychopathy Scale, the Driving Anger Scale, the Amett Inventory of Sensation …
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