Impulsivity and sensation seeking in adventurours participants

Pages: 342-347
Priyanka Musalay and Renaz Noorani (St. Francis College, Begumpet, Hyderabad, Telangana)

Adventurous participants are those who take part in sports which involve high risk and are open to learning and willing to explore new experiences. There is willingness to take risk for the sake of experiences along with rapid, unplanned reactions to internal or external stimuli without any regard to negative consequences of those reactions. The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between impulsivity and sensation seeking among adventurous participants and to see the difference between men and women in relation to impulsivity and sensation seeking. A purposive sampling technique was used to collect the data. 120 adventurous participants belonging to air, water and land were included in the study out of them 60 were male and 60 were female. Barratt impulsiveness scale (BIS-15) and sensation seeking scale- Form V (SSS-V) were used to measure impulsivity and sensation seeking respectively. Analysis of data was done using Pearson’s product-movement correlation coefficient and t-test. The results revealed that there was significant difference found between men and women adventurous participants in respect to their non-planning impulsivity, attentional impulsivity, disinhibition and experience seeking.