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  • Title: Sensation seeking and self-reported criminality among student-athletes.
    Author: Young TJ.
    Journal: Percept Mot Skills; 1990 Jun; 70(3 Pt 1):959-62. PubMed ID: 2377432.
    Abstract:
    The present study was conducted to assess whether student-athletes self-report more criminal activities than other students and whether there is a relation between sensation seeking and criminal behavior. In comparison to the control sample of 38, 34 student-athletes scored significantly higher on Zuckerman's Sensation Seeking Scale, Form V, and on a modified version of Canter's Self-report Deviance Checklist. Sensation seeking was not related to self-reported criminality among the control group, but among student-athletes moderately high correlations were found. These findings might suggest another dimension of the theory of sensation seeking among athletes.
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