Risk-taking, Self Control and Humor Styles

Risk-Taking Clinical Trial

Official title:

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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04145765
• Other study ID #: 13181
• Status: Completed
• Start date: April 1, 2019
• Est. completion date: September 3, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: October 2019
• Source: University of Bojnord
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 380
• Est. completion date: September 3, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: May 1, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• be a student of the college

Exclusion Criteria:

• Unwillingness to study And not being a student at university

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Humor as Topic
• Risk-Taking
• Self-Control

Intervention

Other:
• correlation
the subjects completed the questionnaires

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Iran, Islamic Republic of	university of Bojnord	Bojnourd	North Khorasan

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Malahat Amani

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Iran, Islamic Republic of, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	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
Primary	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
Primary	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