Cautarea de senzatii

SENSATION SEEKING

Zuckerman, 1994
Trasatura de personalitate definita prin

cautarea unor experiente variate, noi,

complexe si intense, dar si prin asumarea
voluntara a unor riscuri fizice, sociale, legale
si financiare, doar de dragul experientei
Nevoia de arousal crescut

Corelate de personalitate
Big five- neuroticism, extraversiune,

deschidere (openness), agreabilitate

(agreeableness), si constiinciozitae
( conscientiousness)
Big three psihoticism, extraversiune,

neuroticism

Scale de eavluare
Seeking Sensation Scale (Zuckerman et al., 1978,

SSS-V)
(Thrill and Adventure Seeking, Experience Seeking, Disinhibition
and Boredom Susceptibility)

Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Openness

Personality Inventory, Revised (Costa & McCrae,

1992, NEO-PI-R)

ZuckermanKuhlman Personality Questionnaire

(ZKPQ; Zuckerman et al., 1993)

Impulsive Sensation Seeking, Neuroticism-Anxiety,
Aggression-Hostility, Activity and Sociability

Predictori pentru experientele de viata,

preferinte, comportamente si ganduri

Comportamente asociate
Consumul de alcool
Consumul de substanta
Condusul imprudent
Sporturi extreme
Comportamente sexuale de risc
Jocul de noroc

Domenii ocupationale
pompieri, salvamontisti (Zalescki, 1984)
Studentii de la criminalistica (Roberti ,2003)
Consilierii pt victime ale violurilor (Best and

Kilpatrick, 1977)
Jurnalism
Cascadori
Chirurgi (Oleszkiewicz ,1982)
Politisti, piloti, ofiteri din armata

Diferente in CS
Diferente de gen B>F

Nu si la subscala de cautare a experientelor

Varsta este importanta in angajarea in

comportamentele si activitatile de cautare
a senzatiilor
Statusul marital

Caspi et all, 1997

Temperamentul, trasaturile de personalitate

dezvoltarea in copilarie

Comportamente de risc pentru sanatate la varsta

adulta

Corelate neurobiologice
Corticosteroizi (activitate dopaminergica + in

nucleul acumbens si activitate - in cortexul

prefrontal) Piazza et all., 1993
Sistemul dopaminergic (serotonina si
norepinefrina-)

La oameni, nivel scazut de cortizol (Netter et al.,

1996)
Hormoni gonodali (testosteron, lutein, androgen,
estrogen, estradiol)- -- MAO