Sensation Seeking and Aggression in Adventure Sportspersons: A Comparative Study

By : Debjani Kar, Sreemoyee Tarafder

Page No: 137-149

Abstract
Adventure sport (AS) is inherently consisting of components of sensation seeking along with the established fact of aggression being an integral part of any sort of sports activity. In this study, it was intended to see how sensation seeking and aggression interact to develop unique characteristics of AS persons in comparison to NAS & NS persons. Cross-sectional, purposive sampling was used to select AS (n = 33; 26 M, 7 F) & NAS (n = 37; 26 M, 11 F) participants with NS (n= 31; 21 M, 10 F) as control group. All participants were assessed on the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI) to assess anger expression patterns and the Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS-V) to assess sensation-seeking behavior. ANOVA was done for group comparisons with the Bonferroni test for post-hoc analysis along with Students’ttest and Pearson correlation. Findings indicated comparatively lower anger temperament and higher sensation-seeking as distinctive factors in the choice of adventure sports.

Authors :
Debjani Kar : Department of Psychology, West Bengal State University, Barasat.
Sreemoyee Tarafder : Department of Psychology, West Bengal State University, Barasat.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/JPR.2020.15.01.11