THE PERSONALITY FACTORS PRO- AND ANTISOCIAL PHYSICAL RISK TAKERS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF ALTERNATIVE FIVE MODEL

• Authors: Prochniak P.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Physical - risk taking activities can be classified along a continuum ranging from prosociality to antisociality. The present study was aimed at identifying the personality factors from Zuckerman's alternative five model common to those who engage in physical risky activities, and those that differentiate among the groups along the continuum. The sample consisted of 89 prosocial risk takers - policemen preparing for the pace keeping mission in Kosovo (for example: antiterrorists, pyrotechnics, detectives from Central Bureau of Investigation (Polish FBI) and 75 antisocial risk takers incarcerated for having committed armed robbery. Subjects were administered the Zuckerman-Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire - ZKQP. The two variables that best discriminate among the prosocial and antisocial risk takers are: Sociability and Aggression- Hostility.

Keywords

EN

ALTERNATIVE FIVE MODEL; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR; RISK TAKING

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Interdyscyplinarne Centrum Genetyki Zachowania (ICGZ) Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Psychologia-Etologia-Genetyka
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 16
• Pages: 63-74
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Prochniak P.

• P. Prochniak, Akademia Pomorska w Slupsku, Zaklad Psychologii, ul. Arciszewskiego 22, 76-200 Slupsk, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA04268308