Motivation and Disinhibition in High Risk Sports: Sensation Seeking and Self-Efficacy

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 355-374

  Slanger, Elissa ^b   Rudestam, Kjell Erik ^a  

^a FIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000908332     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jrpe.1997.2193     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Adler A. Problems of neurosis. 1930;Cosmopolitan Book Corp. New York.
2. Balint M. Thrills and regressions. 1959;International University Press, Inc. New York.
3. Bandura A. Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change. Psychological Review. 84:1977;191-215.
4. Bandura A. Social foundations of thought and action. 1986;Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs.
5. Barnes G. E. The Vando R-A Scale as a measure of stimulus reducing-augmenting. The biological bases of personality and behavior. 1985;Hemisphere Publishing, Washington.
6. J. I. Boyar, 1964, The construction and partial validation of a scale for the measurement of the fear of death.
7. G. Breivik, 1991, Personality and sensation-seeking in risk sport: A summary.
8. M. R. Brown, 1978, Satiation tendencies and sensation seeking among high and low-risk sport groups.
9. Byrne D. The repression-sensitization scale: Rationale, reliability, and validity. Journal of Personality. 29:1961;334-349.
10. Byrne D. Repression-sensitization as a dimension of personality. Maher B. S. Progress in experimental personality research, Vol. 1. 1964;Academic Press, New York.
11. Byrne D., Barry J., Nelson D. Relation of the Revised Repression-Sensitization Scale to measures of self-description. Psychological Reports. 13:1963;323-334.
12. Collett L., Lester D. The fear of death and the fear of dying. Journal of Psychology. 72:1969;179-181.
13. P. M. Connolly, 1981, An exploratory study of adult engaging in the high risk sport of skiing.
14. Cronin C. Sensation seeking among mountain climbers. Personality and Individual Differences. 12:1991;653-654.
15. Csikszentmihalyi M. Beyond boredom and anxiety. 1975;Jossey-Boss, San Francisco.
16. Deutsch H. A. A contribution to the psychology of sport. International Journal of Psychoanalysis. 7:1926;223-227.
17. Farley F. Psychobiology and cognition: An individual-differences model. Strealau J., Farley F. H., Gale A. The biological bases of personality and behavior. 1985;Hemisphere Publishing, Washington.
18. Farley F. The big T in personality. Psychology Today. 1986, May;45-52.
19. Feiji J. A., Orlebecke J. F., Gazendam A., Van Zuilen R. W. Sensation seeking: Measurement and psychophysiological correlates. Strelau J., Farley F. H., Gale A. The biological bases of personality and behavior. 1985;Hemisphere Publishing, Washington.
20. Fenichel O. The counterphobic attitude. International Journal of Psychoanalysis. 20:1939;263-274.
21. Fenichel O. The psychoanalytic theory of neurosis. 1945;W. W. Norton, New York.
22. Fowler C. J., Von Knorring L., Oreland L. Platelet monoamine oxidase activity in sensation seekers. Psychiatric Research. 3:1980;273-279.
23. Goma J. Personality profile of subjects engaged in high physical risk sports. Personality and Individual Differences. 12:1991;1087-1093.
24. Hendrick I. Instinct and the ego during infancy. Psychoanalytic Quarterly. 11:1942;33-58.
25. Heyman S. R., Rose K. G. Psychological variables affecting SCUBA performance. Nadeau C. H., Holliwell W. R., Newell K. M., Roberts C. C. Psychology of motor behavior and sport. 1980;Human Kinetics Press, Champaign.
26. J. Huberman, 1968, A psychological study of participants in high risk sports.
27. Hymbaugh K., Garrett J. Sensation seeking among skydivers. Perceptual and Motor Skills. 38:1974;118.
28. Klausner S. Z. Why man takes chances. 1968;Anchor Books, New York.
29. I. Kusyszyn, P. Steinberg, B. Elliot, 1974, Arousal seeking, physical risk taking, and personality.
30. Lonetto R., Templer D. I. The nature of death anxiety. Spielberger C. D., Butcher J. N. Advances in personality assessment, Vol. 3. 1983;Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale.
31. Maslow A. H. Toward a psychology of being. 1968;Van Nostrand Reinhold Co. New York.
32. Mellstrom M., Cicola G. A., Zuckerman M. General versus specific trait anxiety measures in the prediction of fear of snakes, heights and darkness. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 44:1976;83-91.
33. Moe K. O., Zeiss A. M. Measuring self-efficacy expectations for social skills: A methodological inquiry. Cognitive Therapy and Research. 6:1982;191-205.
34. S. J. Parham, 1982, A preliminary investigation of self-efficacy in a non-phobic population.
35. Perloe S. I. Inhibition as a determinant of perceptual defense. Perceptual Motor Skills. 11:1960;59-66.
36. Sarnoff I., Corwin S. M. Castration anxiety and the fear of death. Journal of Personality. 27:1959;374-385.
37. Sherer M., Maddux J. E., Mercandante, Prentice-Dunn S., Jacobs B., Rogers R. The self-efficacy scale: Construction and validation. Psychological Reports. 51:1982;663-671.
38. Sherer M., Adams C. H. Construct validation of the self-efficacy scale. Psychological Reports. 53:1983;899-902.
39. Straub W. F. Sensation seeking among high and low-risk male athletes. Journal of Sport Psychology. 4:1982;246-253.
40. Taylor S. E., Brown J. D. Illusion and well-being: A social psychological perspective on mental health. Psychological Bulletin. 103:1988;193-210.
41. D. I. Templer, 1969, Death anxiety scale.
42. Tipton R. M., Worthington E. L. The measurement of generalized self-efficacy: A study of construct validity. Journal of Personality Assessment. 48:1984;545-548.
43. Tolor A., Reznikoff M. Relationship between insight, repression, sensitization, internal-external control and death anxiety. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 72:1967;426-430.
44. White R. W. Motivation reconsidered: The concept of competence. Fiske D. W., Maddi S. R. Functions of varied experience. 1961;The Dorsey Press, Homewood.
45. Zuckerman M. The sensation seeking motive. Maher B. A. Progress in experimental research, Vol. 7. 1974;Academic Press, New York.
46. Zuckerman M. Sensation seeking. 1979;Erlbaum, Hillsdale.
47. Zuckerman M. Biological bases of sensation seeking, impulsivity and anxiety. 1983;Erlbaum, Hillsdale.
48. Zuckerman M. Biological foundations of the sensation-seeking temperament. Strelau J., Farley F. H., Gale A. The biological bases of personality and behavior. 1985;Hemisphere Publishing, Washington.
49. Zuckerman M. Behavioral expressions and biosocial bases of sensation seeking. 1994;Cambridge Univ. Press, New York.
50. Zuckerman M., Link K. Construct validity for the sensation seeking scale. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 39:1972;308-321.