Krause, Philipp and Heindl, Johannes and Jung, Andreas and Langguth, Berthold and Hajak, Goeran and Sand, Philipp G. (2014) Risk attitudes and birth order. JOURNAL OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY, 19 (7). pp. 858-868. ISSN 1359-1053, 1461-7277
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Risk attitudes play important roles in health behavior and everyday decision making. It is unclear, however, whether these attitudes can be predicted from birth order. We investigated 200 mostly male volunteers from two distinct settings. After correcting for multiple comparisons, for the number of siblings and for confounding by gender, ordinal position predicted perception of health-related risks among participants in extreme sports (p < .01). However, the direction of the effect contradicted Adlerian theory. Except for alcohol consumption, these findings extended to self-reported risk behavior. Together, the data call for a cautious stand on the impact of birth order on risk attitudes.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ATTENTION-DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER; DANGEROUS SPORTS; PARTICIPATION; HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; ACHIEVEMENT; PERCEPTIONS; SCALE; birth order; extreme sports; personality; risk perception; risk-taking |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Sep 2019 12:35 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Sep 2019 12:35 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/9906 |
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