Who takes risks in high-risk sports? A typological personality approach

Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 478-484

  Woodman, Tim ^b   Scanff, Christine Le ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conscientiousness; Extraversion; Neuroticism; Risk taking behaviors

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; EXTRAVERSION; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPORT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; RISK-TAKING; SPORTS;

EID: 79952263449     PISSN: 02701367     EISSN: 21683824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02701367.2010.10599709     Document Type: Article

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