Risk taking as motivation for volunteering for a hazardous experiment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19281967 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jared B Jobe (United States Army Combat Capabilities Development Command), Stanley H Holgate (United States Army Combat Capabilities Development Command), Thomas A Scrapansky (United States Army Combat Capabilities Development Command) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 95-107 |
| Publication date | 1983-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3506 • E-ISSN: 1467-6494 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1983.tb00856.x |
| PMID | 6864432 |
| OpenAlex | W2032507162 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 20 |
Army male enlisted personnel were tested in two experiments to assess the psychological correlates of volunteering for a hazardous combat simulation, (Experiment 1) and a riskless, psychological experiment (Experiment 2). Subjects were given a biographical and personal habit questionnaire, the IPAT Anxiety Scale, Rotter's Locus of Control Scale, and Torrance and Ziller's life experience inventory. Results from Experiment 1 indicated that volunteers were significantly less anxious, and more willing to take risks than were nonvolunteers. Noncommissioned officers, smokers, laterborn children, and children of lower socioeconomic class parents were significantly overrepresented among the volunteers for this hazardous experiment. In Experiment 2, which solicited volunteers for a routine, nonhazardous experiment, the only variable to discriminate the volunteers from the nonvolunteers was mothers' education level. Results are in agreement with findings, using college students, that volunteer samples differ significantly from nonvolunteer samples, and that the characteristics that discriminate these two groups vary as a function of situational factors
Anxiety · Developmental psychology · Environmental health · Locus of control · Personality · Population · Psychiatry · Sensation Seeking · Situational ethics · Socioeconomic status · Volunteer · Clinical Psychology · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Disaster Management and Resilience · Medicine · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
Development of a sensation-seeking scale.
Generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.
To Be or Not to Be a Guinea Pig
To Be or Not to Be a Guinea Pig
Cognitive manipulation of pain
The Reluctant Respondent
Birth order and participation in dangerous sports
Differences Between Persons Responding and Not Responding to a Mailed Questionnaire
Birth order as a selective factor among volunteer subjects
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1985 - 2019 (35) |
| Highly cited | No |