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Traditional masculinity, peer pressure, sensation seeking, and risky behavior are all elements that correlate with each other. Research found that male undergraduate students conforming to traditional masculinity were more likely to involve themselves with higher levels of sensation seeking and risky behavior compared to females. [19]
The Sensation Seeking Scale is one of the most common psychological instruments for measuring sensation seeking. It was created in 1964 by Marvin Zuckerman , at the University of Delaware . [ 1 ] Zuckerman created the scale with the purpose of better understanding personality traits such as neuroticism , antisocial behavior , and psychopathy ...
Marvin Zuckerman (March 21, 1928, in Chicago – November 8, 2018 [1]) was Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Delaware. [2] Zuckerman is best known for his research into the psychobiological basis of human personality, [3] [4] sensory deprivation, [5] [6] mood state measurement, [7] [8] and sensation seeking.
Impulsive sensation-seeking: measures low socialisation, and high psychoticism, impulsivity, and sensation-seeking. The impulsivity items assess lack of planfulness and a tendency to act without thinking. The sensation seeking items describe a liking for thrills and excitement, novelty and variety, and unpredictable situations and friends. [3]
That is, novelty seeking (or sensation seeking) refers to the tendency to pursue new experiences with intense emotional sensations. It is a multifaceted behavioral construct that includes thrill seeking, novelty preference, risk taking, harm avoidance, and reward dependence.
The UPPS includes 4 sub-scales: lack of premeditation, urgency, lack of perseverance, and sensation-seeking. UPPS-P Impulsive Behavior Scale (UPPS-P) [129] is a revised version of the UPPS, including 59 items. It assesses an additional personality pathway to impulsive behavior, Positive Urgency, in addition to the four pathways assessed in the ...
Sensation Seeking (SS): behavioural orientation to well-defined and existing sensational objects and events, underestimation of outcomes of risky behaviour; Empathy (EMP): behavioural orientation to the emotional states/needs of others (ranging from empathic deafness in autism and schizophrenia disorders to social dependency)
Impulsivity has been found to exhibit a different developmental trajectory than reward or sensation seeking. [30] Impulsivity gradually declines with age in a linear fashion. [31] Around mid-adolescence when impulsivity and sensation-seeking are at their peak is the theoretical peak age for risk-taking according to the dual systems model. [2]