Relationship between sensation-seeking and risk behaviours in Ecuadorian adolescents from a gender perspective

Authors

  • Dalila Eslava Pérez
  • Ginesa López-Crespo Universidad de Zaragoza
  • Enrique Espinoza Freire

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14635/IPSIC.2019.117.9

Keywords:

Sensation-seeking personality, alcohol use, tobacco use, drunkenness, risky sexual behaviour.

Abstract

The aim of the study was to know the relationship between the different dimensions of the sensation-seeking personality variable and some risk behaviours, specifically drug use and risky sexual behaviour, depending on the gender of the participants. It was also studied whether the consumption of the different drugs and the sexual risk behaviour were related to each other. The sample included 367 participants from Ecuador (55.6% boys and 44.4% girls) aged between 13 and 17. Some items from The Adolescent Risk-Taking Questionnaire scale and the Sensation-Seeking Scale-V scale were administered. The results showed that the search for experiences and disinhibition are the two dimensions that best explain consumer behaviour in both genders and that these explain risky sexual behaviour in boys but not in girls. In addition, it was found that drug use and sexual risk behaviors were related in both cases. This raises the need to seek alternatives so that those young people with the greatest need for experimentation channel this characteristic towards healthy activities

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Author Biographies

Dalila Eslava Pérez

Docente externo de la Universidad Internacional de Valencia

Ginesa López-Crespo, Universidad de Zaragoza

Departamento de Psicología y Sociología: área de Psicologia Evolutiva y de la EducacionEn el grupo de investigación ERA (Emoción, Regulación, Ajuste)

Published

2019-06-26

How to Cite

Eslava Pérez, D., López-Crespo, G., & Espinoza Freire , E. (2019). Relationship between sensation-seeking and risk behaviours in Ecuadorian adolescents from a gender perspective. INFORMACIO PSICOLOGICA, (117), 32–46. https://doi.org/10.14635/IPSIC.2019.117.9

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