Arousal-seeking in risk sport participants
Deutscher übersetzter Titel: | Aktivationsbereitschaft bei Teilnehmern einer Risikosportart |
---|---|
Autor: | Kerr, John H. |
Erschienen in: | Personality and individual differences |
Veröffentlicht: | 12 (1991), 6, S. 613-616, Lit. |
Format: | Literatur (SPOLIT) |
Publikationstyp: | Zeitschriftenartikel |
Medienart: | Gedruckte Ressource |
Sprache: | Englisch |
ISSN: | 0191-8869, 0191-8869 |
Schlagworte: | |
Online Zugang: | |
Erfassungsnummer: | PU199502056839 |
Quelle: | BISp |
Abstract des Autors
Three independent studies, involving male Australian, Dutch and British subjects, were carried out to examine arousal-seeking (paratelic dominance) in regular performers of risk and safe sports. Research participants comprising samples of risk, safe and, in one case, non-sporting individuals completed the Telic Dominance Scale (TDS). The results indicated that: (a) Australian surfers and sailboarding groups scored similarly and significantly lower than a weight training group on all three TDS subscales and on overall telic dominance; (b) Dutch parachutists and motor-cycle racers scored significantly lower on the arousal avoidance TDS subscale than marathon runners; (c) British glider pilots scored significantly lower on the arousal avoidance TDS subscale than a non-sporting sample of the general public. The findings generally support the view, from reversal theory, that individuals who perform risk sports on a regular basis are arousal seekers. Verf.-Referat