Article: Sexual compulsivity among heterosexual college students.

Article: The relationship between indicators of sexual compulsivity and high risk sexual practices among men and women receiving services from a sexually transmitted infection clinic.
The Journal of Sex Research;  August 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Sexual compulsivity is associated with high rates...Gold & Heffner, 1998). Sexual compulsivity is a heterogeneous psychological...Gold & Heffner, 1998). Sexual compulsivity is not a formal psychiatric...

Article: Sensation seeking and risky behavior.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
SciTech Book News;  March 1, 2007 ;     158 words ...9781591477389 Sensation seeking and risky behavior. Zuckerman, Marvin...Delaware) was the originator of the first sensation seeking scale in the early 1960s and has made sensation seeking the main focus of his work over the past...

Article: Friends, porn, and punk: sensation seeking in personal relationships, Internet activities, and music preference among college students.
Adolescence;  June 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......involve a personality trait known as sensation seeking. Zuckerman (1994) has defined sensation seeking as the seeking of varied, novel...sake of such experience (p. 27). Sensation seeking includes risk-taking, which typically...

Article: Ex-mayor allowed to travel for sex-addict therapy
AP Online;  February 24, 2009 ;     108 words ......that Becker be allowed to get inpatient treatment at the Keystone Center in Philadelphia. The center treats those with sexual compulsivity and trauma. Judge Stephen Simanek on Tuesday agreed to change the terms of Becker's bond to allow him to leave Racine...

Article: Materialism and money spending disposition as predictors of economic and personality variables.
North American Journal of Psychology;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......tendencies, attitudes toward debt, sensation seeking, and openness to experience. Students...an attitudes toward debt scale, a sensation seeking scale, and an openness to experience...were predictive of impulse buying, sensation seeking, and openness to experience. Two...

Article: Adolescent norms of for the MAACL-R6.(Multiple Affect Adjective Check List-Revised)
Adolescence;  December 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Hostility, Positive Affect, and Sensation Seeking, and the two composite scales, Dysphoria...PASS (sum of Positive Affect and Sensation Seeking), that were found to be at or below...Hostility (H), Positive Affect (PA), and Sensation Seeking (SS). There are two composite scores...

Article: BEHAVIORAL MECHANISMS UNDERLYING THE LINK BETWEEN SMOKING AND DRINKING.
Alcohol Research & Health;  December 22, 2000 ;     113 words ......antidepressant effects, and both drugs may induce euphoria and other rewarding responses. A persons level of impulsivity and sensation seeking also may influence his or her propensity to begin using alcohol and tobacco. This article reviews the mechanisms that may...

Article: The effect of stimulus content on volunteering for sexual interest research among college students.
The Journal of Sex Research;  August 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......self-monitoring as well as sexual and general sensation seeking than did nonvolunteers, while differences...sexual novelty (i.e., greater sexual sensation seeking; Gaither, 2000; Wiederman, 1999b...exploitiveness (Wiederman, 1999b), and sensation seeking (Bogaert, 1996; Gaither, ...

Article: Sexual activity and risk taking in young heterosexual men: the relevance of sexual arousability, mood, and sensation seeking.
The Journal of Sex Research;  May 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......involved heterosexual men and women. In 64% of studies, sensation seeking was one of the personality factors studied. Consistent evidence supported a relationship between sensation seeking and all the aspects of sexual risk taking covered by...

Article: Adolescent perceptions of their risk-taking behavior.
Adolescence;  September 22, 1994 ;     700+ words ......Zuckerman's (1964) theory of stimulus adjustment, labeled sensation seeking, Jessor and Jessor (1977) also explain the need for risk...a socially acceptable outlet for the need to engage in sensation seeking. Thus we would expect a low positive relationship between...

Article: Cooper, Colin. Individual Differences (Second Edition).(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Adolescence;  September 22, 2003 ;     120 words ......to include sections on change in personality and mental abilities over the lifespan, anxiety and information processing, sensation seeking, Schizotypy and Emotional Intelligence. Specifically designed for psychology and education students, the text contains...

Article: Measuring the mood of seventh-grade students with the MAACL-R6.(Multiple Affect Adjective Check List-Revised)
Adolescence;  September 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Depression (D), Hostility (H), Positive Affect (PA), and Sensation Seeking (SS). The two composite scores have also been retained...for the trait form ( How you generally feel ), except for Sensation Seeking, were found when the sixth-grade scoring key was applied...

Article: Study says men are worse divers.
Scarborough Evening News (Scarborough, England);  January 10, 2008 ;     269 words ......where she watched 500 divers to see what causes the damage to coral reefs. She said: When men go diving, they experience 'sensation seeking' which triggers a chain reaction of hormones. The first to be released is stress hormone cortisol then testosterone - the...

Article: Sexual addiction, sexual compulsivity, sexual impulsivity, or what? Toward a theoretical model.
The Journal of Sex Research;  August 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......from the norm in ways that are problematic (see Orford, 1978, for earlier discussion of this issue). The literature on sexual compulsivity and sexual addiction has been preoccupied with issues of definition, particularly pertaining to DSM-IV, and has paid very...