@article{ref1,
title="Risk-taking propensity and (un)healthy behavior in Germany",
journal="Drug and alcohol dependence",
year="2018",
author="Brailovskaia, Julia and Schillack, Holger and Assion, Hans-Jorg and Horn, Helmut and Margraf, Jürgen",
volume="192",
number="",
pages="324-328",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Earlier research in South Africa (Szrek et al., 2012) confirmed the one-item Dohmen measure (Dohmen et al., 2011) to be a significant predictor of risky health behavior. <br><br>METHODS: The present study investigated the relationship of the Dohmen measure with other measures of risk-taking propensity (e.g., Domain-Specific Risk-Taking scale), and its predictive power for smoking, problematic drinking, problematic car driving, and problematic sexual behavior, in a sample of 63 patients of psychiatric clinics and 102 healthy participants in Germany. <br><br>RESULTS: The Dohmen measure was significantly positively related to other involved instruments. It served as predictor of two of the four investigated risky health activities (i.e., smoking, problematic drinking). <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: The Dohmen measure seems to be a valid and time efficient instrument to assess general risk-taking propensity, as well as specific propensity for smoking and problematic drinking in Germany.<br><br>Copyright © 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0376-8716",
doi="10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2018.08.027",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2018.08.027"
}