Evolutionary personality psychology and victimology - Sex differences in risk attitudes and short-term orientation and their relation to sex differences in victimizations

被引:25
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作者
Fetchenhauer, D
Rohde, PA
机构
[1] Univ Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
[2] Univ Kassel, D-3500 Kassel, Germany
关键词
risk taking; risk attitudes; short-term orientation; sex differences; victimizations;
D O I
10.1016/S1090-5138(01)00104-0
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Men are more often victims of events like car accidents or (violent) crimes than women with the sole exception of sexual assault. Based on the theory of sexual selection, it has been argued that these sex differences in both perpetration and victimization rates can be attributed to sex differences in risk taking and short-term orientation. Men are expected to be more risk prone than women because throughout evolutionary history, men had to engage in a higher level of intrasexual competition. However, despite the theoretical plausibility and empirical evidence at the behavioral level, there is little direct evidence that risk attitudes and short-term orientation as a sexually dimorphic personality trait mediate rates of victimization. Measures of risk attitude and short-term orientation administered to a German student sample (N = 275) showed that: (1) the likelihood of being victimized by different kinds of negative events did correlate with both the risk attitudes and short-term orientation of a (potential) victim, (2) men had a more positive attitude, towards risks and were more short-term oriented than women, and (3) sex differences in victimization rates were mediated by sex differences in risk attitudes, implying a close link between risk attitude and short-term orientation. We also show that women's risk of being raped is related to their individual risk attitude scores. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.
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页码:233 / 244
页数:12
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