Testing Risk-Taking Behavior in Chinese Undergraduate Students

Du, Xiufang; Li, Jia; Du, Xihao

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0097989

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“…The internal consistency measured was excellent (α = .94). Health risk attitude is suggested to have a moderate stability across the life span (Josef et al., 2016) or within 1 month (Du et al, 2014).…”

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Risk tolerance and changes in coronavirus disease (COVID) related health behaviors: A longitudinal study.

Shou¹,

Smithson²,

Gulliver³

et al. 2022

Health Psychology

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Objective: The present study examined behavioral responses during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the role of dispositional risk tolerance in the Australian context. Method:The study involved a six-wave longitudinal investigation with a nationally representative sample of Australians (N = 1,296). Dispositional risk tolerance was measured at Wave 1 and participants' anxiety level and self-report implementation of 10 COVID actions was assessed in each wave. Autoregressive multinomial regression models were estimated to assess the unique contribution of risk tolerance to the longitudinal change of participants' implementation of COVID actions. Results: The results revealed a high implementation rate for protective actions when Australia had a peak in the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequently declined with the easing threat of the pandemic. Individuals' dispositional risk tolerance significantly predicted transition to, and endorsement of, protective actions. Participants who had low risk tolerance were more likely to remain at the state of implementing COVID-19 measures than being in, or transitioning to, other states. Conclusions: The findings suggest that when encouraging protective actions, governments and public authorities should acknowledge variability in the community in responding to risk and consider measures in addition to risk messaging to encourage protective actions among individuals with a high level of risk tolerance.

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Risk tolerance and changes in coronavirus disease (COVID) related health behaviors: A longitudinal study.

Shou¹,

Smithson²,

Gulliver³

et al. 2022

Health Psychology

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“…Both the original and revised versions of the DOSPERT have been used extensively across different populations (i.e., professional, student and community samples) and language groups, including a variety of European languages (e.g., French: Blais & Weber, 2006;Spanish: Horcajo, Rubio, Aguado, Hernández & Márquez, 2014;Polish: Jochemczyk, Pietrzak, Buczkowski, Stolarski & Markiewicz, 2017; German: Schmitz, Kunina-Habenicht, Hildebrandt, Oberauer & Wilhelm, 2018), and non-Euro-American samples (e.g., Chinese: Du, Li & Du, 2014;Persian: Khodarahimi & Fathi, 2016;Japanese: Krockow, Takezawa, Pulford, Colman & Kita, 2017;Hebrew: Yechiam & Telpaz, 2013).…”

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Assessing a domain-specific risk-taking construct: A meta-analysis of reliability of the DOSPERT scale

Shou

Olney

2020

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The DOSPERT scale has been used extensively to understand individual differences in risk attitudes across varying decision domains since 2002. The present study reports a reliability generalization meta-analysis to summarize the internal consistency of both the initial and the revised versions of DOSPERT. It also examined factors that can influence the reliability of the DOSPERT and its subscales. A total of 104 samples (N = 30,109) that reported 465 coefficient alphas were analyzed. Results of meta-regression models showed that the overall coefficient alpha of the DOSPERT total scores was satisfactory, regardless of the scale and study characteristics. Coefficient alphas varied significantly across domain subscales, with values ranging from .68 for the social domain to .80 for the recreational domain. In addition, the alpha coefficients of subscales varied significantly depending on various study characteristics. Finally, we report the meta-analysis of the intercorrelations among DOSPERT subscales and reveal that intercorrelations among the subscales are heterogeneous. We discuss the theoretical implications of the present findings.

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“…These studies have reported a number of findings similar to those using Euro-American samples. For example, Chinese participants scored higher on the social and recreational risk-taking domains than the ethical, financial and health domains (Cheung & Tao, 2013), and males scored higher on the ethical, financial and health domains of the DOSPERT than females (Du et al, 2014;Hu & Xie, 2012). In terms of the level of risk-taking, Du et al (2014) reported that Chinese undergraduate students had higher scores on financial investment risk-taking, but similar scores on other domains compared to the average scores reported in Western samples.…”

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Cross-cultural assessment and comparisons of risk tolerance across domains

2022

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Risk attitudes are known to play an important role in influencing one’s behavior under conditions of uncertainty. To date, cultural influences on risk attitudes - beyond the effects they have on perceived risk - have not been well understood. Having a cross-culturally invariant measure of risk attitudes is a prerequisite for carrying out more in depth explorations in this area. The current study applied the domain-specific risk attitudes framework and focused on the Chinese and US cultural contexts. Using novel network analysis techniques, we explored domain-specific patterns of risk attitudes in Chinese and US community samples and we subsequently developed a version of the Multi-Domain Risk Tolerance scale (MDRT-EC) that had similar applicability in both samples. The MDRT-EC demonstrated excellent psychometric characteristics and achieved strong measurement invariance across both samples. The associations between MDRT-EC domain scales and criterion scales were also similar between the two samples, further indicating the measurement invariance of the MDRT-EC. Finally, we used the MDRT-EC to explore cultural differences in risk attitudes across domains and their predictive relations with a range of lifestyle behaviors.

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Testing Risk-Taking Behavior in Chinese Undergraduate Students

Cited by 10 publications

References 24 publications

Risk tolerance and changes in coronavirus disease (COVID) related health behaviors: A longitudinal study.

Risk tolerance and changes in coronavirus disease (COVID) related health behaviors: A longitudinal study.

Assessing a domain-specific risk-taking construct: A meta-analysis of reliability of the DOSPERT scale

Cross-cultural assessment and comparisons of risk tolerance across domains

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