@article{ref1,
title="Who takes risks in high-risk sports? A typological personality approach",
journal="Research quarterly for exercise and sport",
year="2010",
author="Castanier, Carole and Le Scanff, Christine and Woodman, Tim",
volume="81",
number="4",
pages="478-484",
abstract="We investigated the risk-taking behaviors of 302 men involved in high-risk sports (downhill skiing mountaineering rock climbing, paragliding, or skydiving). The sportsmen were classified using a typological approach to personality based on eight personality types, which were constructed from combinations of neuroticism, extraversion, and conscientiousness. Results showed that personality types with a configuration of low conscientiousness combined with high extraversion and/or high neuroticism (impulsive, hedonistic, insecure) were greater risk-takers. Conversely, personality types with a configuration of high conscientiousness combined with low extraversion and/or high extraversion (skeptic, brooder, entrepreneur) were lower risk-takers. Results are discussed in the context of typology and other approaches to understanding who takes risks in high-risk domains.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0270-1367",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}