Analyzing the Relationship between Risk-taking Behaviour and Dysfunctional Attitude among Young Adults

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between risk-taking behaviour experienced by young people as a result of distress, risk-taking behaviour experienced for pleasure, and dysfunctional attitudes. In order to investigate the possible relationships between these characteristics, a survey with one hundred participants was carried out. The results show that there are some modest positive relationships between distress and pleasure, which challenges the conventional ideas that are associated with emotionality. Furthermore, modest negative correlations were found between distress/pleasure and dysfunctional attitudes, which prompted a reevaluation of the link that was supposed to exist between cognitive schemas and emotional experiences. The intricacy of the psychological elements that influence behaviour is brought into sharper focus by these findings, which also underline the need of doing further study in this field.