Gender Differences in Risk-Taking and Sensation-Seeking Behavior: Empirical Evidence from “ExtremeSports”

Frick, Bernd

doi:10.1007/s10645-020-09373-y

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“…Sensation seeking was associated with participation in extreme sports; students with a higher level of sensation seeking were more likely to engage in these activities, a result that is consistent with the previous findings (Baretta et al, 2017 ; Breivik et al, 2017 ; Frick, 2021 ). The result confirmed Hypothesis 1.…”

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“…The result confirmed Hypothesis 1. Compared with those individuals with a low level of sensation seeking, those with a high level of sensation seeking tend to have lower risk estimations and lower anxiety levels when participating in risky and stimulating activities (Frick, 2021 ). Thus, high-sensation-seeking middle-school students will underestimate the risks of extreme sports and have relatively low anxiety regarding participating in these activities, which makes them more likely to participate in extreme sports compared with low-sensation-seeking middle-school students.…”

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“…Researchers have conducted studies on the relationship between extreme sports and sensation seeking and have found that sensation seeking can predict the performance in higher-risk discipline freediving but not the performance in lower-risk disciplines (Baretta et al, 2017). Cliff and free divers are sensation seekers, and there are no differences with respect to sensation-seeking behavior that can be found between men and women participants (Frick, 2021). The sensation-seeking of college students is the strongest positive predictor of extreme sports participation (Weishaar et al, 2021).…”

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Relationships Among Extreme Sports Participation, Sensation Seeking, and Negative Risky Behaviors of Middle-School Students

Lingling

et al. 2021

Front. Psychol.

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Objective: The aim was to investigate the relationships among extreme sports participation, sensation seeking, and negative risky behaviors (smoking, drinking alcohol, and gambling) for middle-school students.Methods: Using a convenience sampling procedure, all students from a middle school in a district of Chongqing were selected to participate in the survey, which included questions on their extreme sports participation rate, and smoking, drinking alcohol, and gambling behavior.Results: A sample of 2,987 middle-school students participated in this study. The results showed that the proportions of students participating in extreme sports, smoking, drinking alcohol, and gambling were 19.9, 4.8, 18.4, and 3.0%, respectively. There were significant differences between different genders, schools, place of residence, smoking, drinking, gambling, and sensation seeking of the participation rate of students of extreme sports, the rate of boys, junior middle-school students, urban students, smokers, alcohol drinkers, gamblers, and high-sensation-seeking students were relatively higher than that of girls, senior middle-school students, rural students, no-smokers, no-alcohol drinkers, no-gamblers, and low-sensation-seeking students. Alcohol drinking, gambling, and sensation seeking were associated with extreme sports participation, and the students who drank alcohol, who gambled, and who were high sensation seeking were more likely to participate in extreme sports than those who did not drink alcohol, who did not gamble, and who were low sensation seeking.Conclusion: Middle schools should integrate extreme sports education into physical education and risky-behavior education, strengthen relevant knowledge and safety training, and guide students to meet their sensation-seeking needs through participation in extreme sports instead of risky behaviors.

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Relationships Among Extreme Sports Participation, Sensation Seeking, and Negative Risky Behaviors of Middle-School Students

Lingling

et al. 2021

Front. Psychol.

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“…Men are more inclined to make risky decisions at work. When student teachers face problems at work, men are more inclined to regard the problem as a challenge, so they engage in more extreme professional behaviors ( Charness and Gneezy, 2012 ; Frick, 2021 ). Therefore, in the face of the problem of students, male student teachers are more likely to take excessive measures to manage their classes.…”

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Development and Validation of an Unethical Professional Behavior Tendencies Scale for Student Teachers

Wang

et al. 2021

Front. Psychol.

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Teacher’s unethical professional behaviors affect students’ physical and mental health. Prevention should start with student teachers, but empirical research is lacking in China. This study surveyed over 2,000 student teachers from China to examine the psychometric properties of a student teachers’ unethical professional behavior tendencies scale which revised by primary and secondary school teachers’ unethical professional behavior tendencies scale. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis confirmed that a bi-factor model fit the data best. The final student teachers’ unethical professional behavior tendencies scale comprised four subscales, including a general factor (unethical professional behaviors) and four special factors (perfunctory attitude and carelessness, insults and discrimination, unfairness, and using power for personal gain). The student teachers’ unethical professional behavior tendencies scale correlated negatively with their professional ethical values and positively with perceived frequency of unethical professional behaviors of college teachers around them. The data supported the scale’s measurement invariance across gender, and male student teachers scored significantly higher on unethical professional behavior tendencies than female student teachers. The findings suggest that the student teachers’ unethical professional behavior tendencies scale is a useful instrument for assessing student teachers’ unethical professional behaviors in China.

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“…Of course, risky behaviors can have consequences for health in both the short- and long term. Men, compared with women, disproportionately participate in risky hobbies such as hunting and extreme sports, and they take more risks across a range of domains, such as driving, drug and alcohol use, and smoking (Byrnes et al, 1999; Frick, 2021). All of these activities heighten risks to health.…”

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Precarious manhood and men’s physical health around the world.

Vandello¹,

Wilkerson²,

Bosson³

et al. 2022

Psychology of Men & Masculinities

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Cultural beliefs about the requirements of manhood may have implications for men’s physical health. In a cross-cultural examination of 62 countries, we explored whether country-level endorsement of precarious manhood beliefs (PMBs) was associated with various country-level risk-related health behaviors and outcomes. In countries that more strongly endorsed PMBs, men had higher rates of risky health behaviors (e.g., smoking, venomous animal contact) and risk-related health outcomes (e.g., liver cirrhosis mortality, drownings), and lower life expectancy. The average size of correlations of PMB with health behaviors and outcomes was moderate (rs = .21, .26), while correlations of PMB with men’s life expectancy were relatively strong (rs = −.56, −.57). Overall, men live over six fewer years in countries higher versus lower in PMB. The relationships between PMB and health behaviors and outcomes were attenuated but did not completely disappear when controlling for country-level indicators of development and gender equality. These findings suggest that country-level beliefs about gender, and not just men’s own masculinity and masculinity-related beliefs, may have important connections to men’s health.

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Gender Differences in Risk-Taking and Sensation-Seeking Behavior: Empirical Evidence from “ExtremeSports”

Cited by 18 publications

References 42 publications

Relationships Among Extreme Sports Participation, Sensation Seeking, and Negative Risky Behaviors of Middle-School Students

Relationships Among Extreme Sports Participation, Sensation Seeking, and Negative Risky Behaviors of Middle-School Students

Development and Validation of an Unethical Professional Behavior Tendencies Scale for Student Teachers

Precarious manhood and men’s physical health around the world.

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