Learning to be Saints or Sinners: The Indirect Pathway from Sensation Seeking to Behavior through Mastery Orientation
Journal of Personality, 76(4), 733–752
Summary
Sensation seeking is neither good nor bad in itself. This paper shows that whether it leads to constructive or harmful behaviour runs through mastery orientation: people who channel the drive into learning tend towards functional outcomes. It is a central test of the hybrid model of learning in personality.
Abstract
Recently, a model of learning has been proposed that argues that Sensation Seeking indirectly predicts functional and dysfunctional behaviors through Mastery Orientation. Central components of the model were tested across two studies. Study 1 tested the proposed indirect effect in the prediction of functional behavior using an objective learning task. Study 2 tested the proposed indirect effects in the prediction of functional and dysfunctional self‐report behavior across two very different samples. Regression analyses in both studies generally supported the proposed model.
Abstract as published in Journal of Personality.
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APA
O'Connor, P. J., & Jackson, C. J. (2008). Learning to be Saints or Sinners: The Indirect Pathway from Sensation Seeking to Behavior through Mastery Orientation. Journal of Personality, 76(4), 733–752. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6494.2008.00502.x
BibTeX
@article{oconnor2008learning,
title = {{Learning to be Saints or Sinners: The Indirect Pathway from Sensation Seeking to Behavior through Mastery Orientation}},
author = {P. J. O'Connor and C. J. Jackson},
journal = {Journal of Personality},
year = {2008},
volume = {76},
number = {4},
pages = {733--752},
doi = {10.1111/j.1467-6494.2008.00502.x}
}