TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Risk-taking propensity and (un)healthy behavior in Germany
JO  - Drug and alcohol dependence
A1  - Brailovskaia, Julia
A1  - Schillack, Holger
A1  - Assion, Hans-Jorg
A1  - Horn, Helmut
A1  - Margraf, Jürgen
SP  - 324
EP  - 328
VL  - 192
IS  - 
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0376-8716
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2018.08.027
ID  - ref1
ER  -