The propensity to take risks is what is called adrenaline addiction, the desire to experience new sensations. In psychology, a human trait is regarded as a manifestation of the "wrong" instinct - the opposite of the instinct of self-preservation. In the financial sector, there is also such a concept, and it means the trader's willingness to work with risky assets in order to achieve the goal. In both cases, people are driven by emotion, self-confidence, and everything depends on intuition and the ability to stop at the right moment.
What are risky people: varieties of propensities for the incomprehensible
There are only 2 types of risk appetite that differ in manifestations in actions:
- Motivated risk - a person assesses the situation, takes into account the circumstances. He gives an account of actions, can determine goals, goes to a solution only according to a plan. He always has a financial or "cold" calculation in case of force majeure. The purpose of the manifestation of riskiness is praise from the "spectators" for whom the performance was played.
- Unreasonable motive - whenthere are no real goals and objectives, a person lives in an illusion, in a virtual "I". The propensity to take risks has a different nature, which puts the individual before the fact: "either avoid risk, or meet him face to face." If the choice fell on the second option, this is an unmotivated goal. This is not about benefits and praise, but about unlocking potential.
People who are willing to face difficulties never give up. Unmotivated, albeit unjustified actions help to achieve success to a greater extent than those who act according to a plan, protecting themselves from all sides.
Diagnosis of personality under stress: the "Risk propensity" technique and assessment of actions
Over the last century, scientists have found a method of how to determine the state of a person, to find out his character and psychology of behavior. Science has helped to make portraits of famous personalities, in the capture of criminals, to choose the right profession. Special algorithms have been developed to concentrate the conventionality of the techniques. Risk propensity was determined by "tuning" these experimental sets of information to determine the level of risk. This made it possible to observe and evaluate the dynamics of progress, which could "read" a person, predetermine his behavior.
- The first development in science belongs to A. Gore - in 1957, an Australian scientist set up an experiment on people. Volunteers took part. The subject was asked to perform manipulations with balls over a layer of glass. Broken pieces are the result of the work of an individual who is prone torisk. He did everything carelessly, clumsily. Those who did not break the glass tried to "play" with the balls as little as possible.
- F. Merz developed his own method. He assessed the propensity for risk in the process of choosing a subject. The subject was asked to take a sharp piece of glass or wood. And here the logic of establishing riskiness is essentially separated from the previous conclusion of the scientist. Those who without hesitation took any object are prone to risk. The rest, analyzing which item is safer, were considered less risky characters.
- Further, American scientists took up the diagnosis of risk appetite. They invited people to play "dice" for money. Whoever bets more is riskier. The ingenious idea of two Americans did not impress the scientific staff of the researchers.
- Compared to European and American geniuses, Russia put forward harsh methods for assessing risk appetite. M. Kotik set up experiments on volunteers who needed to stop the arrow at the “5 seconds” mark on the electromillisecond watch. Those who did not do so received an electric shock. Those who dared to experiment turned out to be risky, because only volunteers were invited.
Today, there are more than a thousand questionnaire tests to assess the propensity to risk in adolescents, children and adults. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of teenagers' answers. It is during this period that children begin to assess the realities of the world sensibly, some of them cross the line of an acceptable level of security. Evidence of thisbecome blatant pictures of tricks that teenagers do, imitating the famous bloggers-roofers.
Suicidal tendencies in teenagers
It is possible to determine how much a child is exposed to public opinion, is prone to risk and is able to take a desperate step, using the method of social diagnostics. It is not only a questionnaire in the form of oral testing. Those who wish are given a sheet of paper, where they describe in bright colors the worst moment in their lives.
Special Risk Behavior Assessment Process
After testing begins, teenagers are also evaluated for behavior during the test. Reading emotions from a face is an important component.
- The result is evaluated positively, that is, the propensity is confirmed if the most "dangerous" part of the image is colored red.
- Family problems are often depicted in blue or purple.
- If a child uses yellow, beige or pale shades of pastel colors, his life is not in danger.
L. V. Voskovskaya studies the behavior of adolescents not only on paper. She experiments, observes "difficult" children and turns everything into a friendly game while the students are in class.
Cognitive components in relation to death
Teenagers perceive the meaning of death differently. This brings joy to someone, someone expects it as the beginning of something new, someone wants to be freed from the difficulties of the current world. As a resultof a survey in which children from the boarding school took part, psychoanalytic philosophers received the following answers:
| Death as a transition | Death as the end of everything | |
| Calm | Philosophical attitude (11%) | Atheistic attitude (7%) |
| Fear | Fear of death (14%) | The horror of "nonexistence" (1%) |
| Joy | Death as deliverance from life (18%) | Protest against peace (0 %) |
This shows that adolescents underestimate the danger in risk-taking, which is why they experience joy in emotions they do not know. A person cannot feel freedom, peace in advance; this is the assumption that "death" as a solution to the problem is better than no way out of the situation as a whole.
Riskiness as an option for self-rescue
Some teenagers rated the "death state" as something that causes vivid stormy emotions:
| Attitude towards death: salvation or end of life | |
| Anger | Death Protest (23%) |
| Indifference, indifference | Death Denial (11%) |
| Sadness, grief | Death as loss (45%) |
From both groups of teenagers, there is not a single person who would answer differently than: "Death is salvation and the end at the same time, but this causes a dilemma. You want to be freefrom the weight of the burden, but you can not find another option. That's why you're both scared and wanting."
Death attitudes can tell exactly how high the risk appetite is in adolescence. When the brain does not yet understand and cannot accept reality, it is easier for a child to establish a virtual reality for himself, where he decides to take desperate actions.
How to recognize a suicidal person?
There are mentally unstable people who are born in such families, and there are "absolutely normal, never capable" teenagers. To prevent stupidity, adults should pay attention:
- The child has changed - lost vitality, dramatically changed points of view on something, tastes have changed, there was a strange desire to be alone.
- Behavioral signals like loss of appetite, sleep disturbance, paranoia, persecution.
- Constant self-flagellation - "I always dreamed, but I couldn't", "my parents say I'm a loser", "friends didn't believe me, they condemned me". The child depends on adults, peers. The feeling of shame eats away at the teenager from the inside, making him vulnerable to suicidal risk.
- Aggression, anxiety, fear - knowing the reasons, you can pull the child out of the web of negativity. The transitional age, characterized by impudence, is the most "mobile" for suggestion to a person or imposition in performing an action. An example of this is the Blue Whale game.
Anxiety can also manifest itself in melancholy, when nervousthe system is tired of living. This is a sign of the beginning of the end.
A trait that costs a person dearly
Not all risky and courageous people see risk as a life-threatening danger. However, any thoughtless act, like drunk driving, can lead to irreversible. Add pepper and listen to psychologists:
- Risk is not always an indicator of a person's courage. He may take a risk in desperation.
- Taking risks doesn't mean living it. Just a seasoning for calm everyday life, which "ignites" a person.
- Risk as PTSD. It’s not scary anymore, but it’s still impossible to fully immerse yourself in the adrenaline world.
Adrenaline addiction is a disease and there is no cure. There is a saying: what kills a person in a large dose makes him more protected in small proportions. For example, a military man has returned from a "hot spot" and can no longer do without stressful situations. Therefore, once a week he flies, jumps with a parachute. Addiction does not go away, does not decrease.
Outrageously justified risk - what do people live for?
Some people find it difficult to keep up with the same emotions every time. In pursuit of strong new sensations, someone tries out a wingsuit.
Others are limited to extreme sports. The production of adrenaline does not give a person a feeling of fear or, conversely, abilities that he had not previously discovered in himself. This kind of love for the extreme saysabout internal discord.
Theory of relativity in the method of determining the level of riskiness
According to the degree of threat, 4 images of risks are distinguished based on real threats, which allow us to correlate a person with one or another dangerous lifestyle:
- Sword of Damocles - the risk plays a cruel joke with a desperate person. He does not have time to solve problems, and the consequences of a sudden decision are unknown.
- Self-control or unlucky people - those who are afraid to go to the doctor get more problems in the form of complications. Instead of lending money to cover the installments on the loan, they are silent, and the debt turns into a "snowball". Such people should be feared - they are not afraid of the environment, but of themselves. Consequences for them is another task from which they will get out the same way they got into trouble.
- Pandora's box. Big money on the first day of viewing ads online - yes! Pleasant meetings with unfamiliar people - yes! An ill-conceived hitchhiking - yes, this is about those who love danger. The effect of the threat to satellites is in space, and the consequences of thoughtlessness are a matter of time.
- Libra Athena. The level of risk appetite borders on the golden mean - 50/50.
Separately, psychopedagogy highlights the type of risk as "the exploits of Hercules". Cases when a person acts for the good, risks only his own interests, are called "in the name of something or someone." The Lord risked the same when he took upon himself the sins of mere mortals. Of course,comparing such things is unacceptable, because people are stupid, as in "Woe from Wit", and not for the sake of a common goal.
Risk in the heat of passion: what is a person ready to take and what are his abilities?
Compare the tendency to suicidal risk with the lack of self-preservation instinct can be as 1:1. Only in the first case there are doubts in thoughts, in the second - doubts in actions. In a state of passion, a person is able to take the most desperate step:
- Strength and energy increase 340 times.
- No fear at all.
- The goal is any means, even forbidden ones.
If you combine in one person indicators of the state of passion, lack of survival instinct and add a high degree of riskiness, then in ordinary life he will be the most cautious only in relation to the family, the child. With enemies that he considers as such, he will behave cruelly.
