Threat to life and risk-taking behaviors: A review of empirical findings and explanatory models

Personality and Social Psychology Review

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 109-128

  Ben Zur, Hasida ^a   Zeidner, Moshe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Coping; Disaster; Emotion regulation; Life threat; Risky behavior; Stress; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; COGNITION; CONTROL; DISASTER; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FEAR; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; SOLDIER; STATISTICS; STUDENT; TERRORISM; VICTIM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; COGNITION; CRIME VICTIMS; DISASTERS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FEAR; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RISK-TAKING; SELF CONCEPT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STUDENTS; TERRORISM;

EID: 67649130048     PISSN: 10888683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1088868308330104     Document Type: Review

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