Risk-taking, Self Control and Humor Styles

The Relationship of Risk Perceptions and Risk-taking With Humor Styles: Mediating Role of Self-control

Therefore, this study tries to examine relationships among risk perception, risk-taking and humor styles through the mediating role of self-control. The present study used the correlation method. The statistical population consisted of all undergraduate students from University of Bojnord. The number of 400 students from the Faculty of Humanities and Basic Sciences was selected by using cluster sampling. The questionnaires were distributed in the classes among who inclined to participate in this study and they completed the questionnaires as anonymous.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Risk-Taking; Self-Control; Humor as Topic
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: correlation

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 380

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Iran, Islamic Republic of
  • North Khorasan
    • Bojnourd, North Khorasan, Iran, Islamic Republic of, 9453155111
      • University of Bojnord

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

The numbers of 380 completed questionnaires were collected. The participants were in range 18 to 29 years old and the mean and standard deviation were 20.27 and 1.96, respectively. Given at the University of Bojnord the proportion of females to males is 70 percent to 30 percent that the proportion of females and males in the sample was observed. In this manner, the 78 percent, 17.7 percent and 4.4 percent of participants were female, male and uncertain, respectively.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• be a student of the college

Exclusion Criteria:

• Unwillingness to study And not being a student at university

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Self-Control	variable self-control was measured by the self-control Questionnaire. it has 36 items that were rated on a 5-point scale (from 1 not at all like me to 5 very much like me). it was completed by the participants.	2 days
Humor styles	variable of humor style was measured by the Questionnaire of humor style. it HSQ included 32-item measures humor styles on a 7-point Likert scale ranging from "strongly disagree (1)"to "strongly agree(7)". HSQ measure the four humor styles of affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive, and self-defeating. it was completed by the participants.	2 days
risk taking	the variable of risk-taking was measeured by Domain-Specific Risk-Taking (DOSPERT) scale. DOSPERT is 30- items that measure risks in 5 fields: health/safety, social, ethical, financial, and recreational. Each item is assessed twice, one time was rated items based on perceived risk and next time was rated same items based on likelihood engage in the risky. it was completed by the participants. Responses are give with using a 7-point rating scale ranging from1 (Extremely Unlikely) to 7 (Extremely Likely). Higher scores indicate greater risk taking in the domain of the subscale. the risk-perception scale evaluates the respondents' gut level assessment of how risky each behavior is on a7-point rating scale ranging from 1 (Not at all) to 7 (Extremely Risky). Ratings are again added across all items of a given subscale to obtain subscale scores, with higher scores suggesting perceptions of greater risk in the domain of the subscale	2 days

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Malahat Amani
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Malahat Amani, University of Bojnord

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): April 1, 2019
• Primary Completion (Actual): May 1, 2019
• Study Completion (Actual): September 3, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 24, 2019
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 29, 2019
• First Posted (Actual): October 31, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): November 1, 2019
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 30, 2019
• Last Verified: October 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 13181

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No