Risk-taking propensity and (un)healthy behavior in Germany
| Autor: | Jürgen Margraf, Holger Schillack, Julia Brailovskaia, Helmut Horn, Hans-Jörg Assion |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Healthy behavior
Adult Male Adolescent Alcohol Drinking Sexual Behavior Health Behavior Toxicology 050105 experimental psychology 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Risk-Taking Germany Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Pharmacology (medical) 030212 general & internal medicine Aged Pharmacology Aged 80 and over Unsafe Sex 05 social sciences Smoking Middle Aged medicine.disease Time efficient Substance abuse Psychiatry and Mental health Health promotion Scale (social sciences) Predictive power Female Health behavior Psychology Risk taking Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Drug and alcohol dependence. 192 |
| ISSN: | 1879-0046 |
| Popis: | Background Earlier research in South Africa ( Szrek et al., 2012 ) confirmed the one-item Dohmen measure ( Dohmen et al., 2011 ) to be a significant predictor of risky health behavior. Methods The present study investigated the relationship of the Dohmen measure with other measures of risk-taking propensity (e.g., Domain-Specific Risk-Taking scale), and its predictive power for smoking, problematic drinking, problematic car driving, and problematic sexual behavior, in a sample of 63 patients of psychiatric clinics and 102 healthy participants in Germany. Results The Dohmen measure was significantly positively related to other involved instruments. It served as predictor of two of the four investigated risky health activities (i.e., smoking, problematic drinking). Conclusions The Dohmen measure seems to be a valid and time efficient instrument to assess general risk-taking propensity, as well as specific propensity for smoking and problematic drinking in Germany. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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