Who takes risks in high-risk sports? A typological personality approach.
We investigated the risk-taking behaviors of 302 men involved in high-risk sports (downhill skiing mountaineering rock climbing, paragliding, or skydiving). The sportsmen were classified using a typological approach to personality based on eight personality types, which were constructed from combinations of neuroticism, extraversion, and conscientiousness. Results showed that personality types with a configuration of low conscientiousness combined with high extraversion and/or high neuroticism (impulsive, hedonistic, insecure) were greater risk-takers. Conversely, personality types with a configuration of high conscientiousness combined with low extraversion and/or high extraversion (skeptic, brooder, entrepreneur) were lower risk-takers. Results are discussed in the context of typology and other approaches to understanding who takes risks in high-risk domains.
UFR STAPS at University of Orsay. carole.castanier@u-psud.fr
Carole
C
Castanier
Christine
C
Le Scanff
Tim
T
Woodman
D000704:Analysis of Variance; D005120:Extraversion, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012309:Risk-Taking; D013177:Sports / Q000523:psychology*