Who Takes Risks in High-Risk Sports? A Typological Personality Approach

• Autores: Carole Castanier, Christine Le Scanff, Tim Woodman
• Localización: Research quarterly for exercise and sport, ISSN 0270-1367, Vol. 81, Nº. 4, 2010, págs. 478-484
• Idioma: inglés
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  • 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