... Abstract. Seventy-eight female and 78 male pathological gamblers admitted to an outpatient
treatment program were compared regarding a profile of risk-taking behaviors (suicide attempts,
illegal activities meant to finance gambling, sexual risky behavior, and alcohol abuse). ...

EVER SINCE Henry Morselli suggested that in the" so-called voluntary actions" of suicide
there could be discerned regularities and uniformities which could be related to social
factors, and Emile Durkheim brilliantly demonstrated some of the major relationships, 1 ...

... These included the Disordered Eating Behavior Index, the Gateway Drug Index, the Hard Drug
Index, the Sexual Behavior Index, and the Suicide Index. This indicates greater risk-taking or
greater involvement in the individual activities for those with tattoo and/or body piercing (T ...

Abstract 1. Investigated the risk-taking nature of suicide attempts and determined if
attempters have a high propensity to gamble on an experimental risk-taking procedure. 102
suicide attempters and 102 controls matched on sex, age, racial ethnic status, and ...

Page 1. Edgework: A Social Psychological Analysis of Voluntary Risk Taking' Stephen Lyng
Virginia Commonwealth University Voluntary risk taking is an activity that attracts a sizable number
of people in American society but has been largely ignored by sociolo- gists. ...

... minor falls or as passive victims. The complex relationship between risk- taking and
suicide attempts is probably a function of the different meanings and motives which
can underlie the attempt. In some patients it can represent ...

Page 1. Personality and Risk-Taking: Common Biosocial Factors ... University of Delaware
ABSTRACT The first part of this article describes a study of the relationships between personality
and risk-taking in six areas: smoking, drinking, drugs, sex, driving, and gambling. ...

... and alcohol education in their schools;5 and studies show very persuasively that educational
efforts do not lead to less risk taking.11 In ... services, and raising the driving age would likely be
more effective in limiting adolescent smoking, substance abuse, suicide, pregnancy, and ...

... Since motherhood provides a rite of pas- sage into the world of adult work, pregnancy may be
consu-ued by many black adolescents not as an undesirable accidental or risk-taking endeavor,
but as a worthwhile achievement. Suicide, the third leading cause of death among ...