- Title
- Patterns of risk-taking behaviour of first year university students
- Creator
- Essendrup, Eugene
- Subject
- College students -- South Africa -- Social conditions
- Subject
- Risk-taking (Psychology)
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- M Soc Sc (C Psy)
- Identifier
- vital:11851
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/135
- Identifier
- College students -- South Africa -- Social conditions
- Identifier
- Risk-taking (Psychology)
- Description
- This study investigated risk-taking behaviours among 244 first year students (Male=52 and Female=192). The risk-taking behaviours of the students were grouped into Risky and Violent Behaviour, Tobacco Use, Alcohol and Drug Use, Risky Sexual Behaviour and Unhealthy Dietary Behaviour subscales. Statistically significant correlations were found among all the risk-taking behaviour subscales other than Unhealthy Dietary Behaviours, which did not correlate with the other risky behaviours. Statistical significant sex differences were found regarding risk-taking behaviour that implicated males as higher risk-takers than females.
- Format
- 96 leaves; 30 cm
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Social Sciences & Humanities
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
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