A motivational perspective on risky behaviors: The role of personality and affect regulatory processes
A motivational perspective on risky behaviors: The role of personality and affect regulatory processes
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DOI：
10.1111/1467-6494.00126
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发表时间：
2000-12-01
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5
通讯作者：
Sheldon, MS
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作者：
Cooper, ML;Agocha, VB;Sheldon, MS
本研究测试了一个动机模型，该模型假设人格对危险行为的影响主要是通过塑造情感体验的性质和质量以及应对这些情感的典型方式间接介导的。这个模型在一个具有代表性的1666名18到25岁年轻人的社区样本中进行了测试。结果有力地支持了该模型，表明与神经质和外向性相关的广泛特质通过不同的途径促进了饮酒和危险性行为。神经质的个体倾向于将危险行为作为应对厌恶情绪状态的一种方式，而外向的个体更有可能将危险行为作为增强积极情感体验的一种方式。相比之下，冲动性直接预测了某些形式的冒险行为，并与外向性和神经质相互作用以预测危险行为的动机。该模型对危险行为提供了一个高度概括但并不完整的解释。
The present study tested a motivational model in which personality influences on risky behaviors were hypothesized to be primarily indirectly mediated, by shaping the nature and quality of emotional experience as well as characteristic styles of coping with these emotions. This model was tested in a representative community sample of 1,666 young adults, aged 18 to 25 years old. Results revealed strong support for the model, indicating that broad traits related to neuroticism and extraversion promote involvement in alcohol use and risky sex via distinct pathways. Neurotic individuals were prone to engage in risky behaviors as a way to cope with aversive mood states, whereas extraverted individuals were more likely to engage in risky behaviors as a way to enhance positive affective experience. In contrast, impulsivity directly predicted some forms of risk taking, and interacted with extraversion and neuroticism to predict motives for risky behaviors. The model provides a highly general though not complete account of risky behaviors.