Psychology Ski Study Results

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OzPac

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Some of you my remember a few months back i posted requesting participants for a psychology ski study for my university dissertation. My thanks go to all that took part, your help really was invaluable. I have since graduated and i thought i would share my findings. I must stress however that this is not a peer reviewed published paper and therefore findings should not be taken as fact, and conclusions veiwed with sceptisim. The title of the report is "The Effects of Gender on Personality and Sensation Seeking Behaviour Traits in High-Risk Sport Athletes". i have included a summary of my most relavant finding below, and the full report can be found at http://www.pn21.co.uk/report.pdf. just to warn you due to its scientific and statistical nature the full report can be in parts a tough read.

The premise for the study was to research the question of as there are more men then women in extreme sports, what does this mean for women who do it in terms of their personality traits? i found that both men and women who do extreme sports regulary have almost identical personality profiles. This is highly unsual in gender research, studys in other areas almost always finding evidence of gender differences. This suggests that there may be evidence of a gender inclusive extreme sport personality profile. This alone, although interesting (in my eyes anyway!), is only a prelude for significant reasearch into the psychological and biological motivations of participating in high risk sports.

I hope that this hasnt complety bored you, and prehaps inspired people to use college or undergraduate projects to look into similar areas to understand why we do what we do. This winter i am living in verbier, switzerland, give me a shout if u are to!! thanks again

 
Wow, these new findings will prove to be invaluable to the 5 people who care. Could you have picked a more pointless topic for your dissertation?
 
thanks for the comments guys, the positive ones at least. there were 604 participants

in total, a breakdown of participant info is on page 6. not a huge study, but big enough to take significance seriously.

 
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btw interesting study, its cool to see people integrating fun things into their lives , and its nice to see skiing included in serious subject matters
 
interesting, . dont have time to read it but i might print it out later.

does it state why skiing makes me feel warm and fuzzy???
 
I put my hand up, and I found a typo!!! It says, "She found that the skiers and snowboarders where not significantly different from the high-risk sports athletes..."
 
This is very interesting, especially since I'm taking a psychology class right now in school.

I might even use this for my article of discussion next week...
 
Definitely

I haven't read all of it yet, and I consider it very interesting. I'll definitely read the rest of it tomorrow.
 
i am having a tough time deciding whose the bigger douche? snowblade boy or this loser? help me out boys.

btw noce findings. i skimmed it but it looks interesting. i will read some laterzz
 
^ It's a toss up in my eyes.

Good work man, I know how hard writing papers like these can be. Good for you for writing about something you enjoy.

I find it pretty funny how two random douchebags post only to put down your work.
 
Yea no schooling at all. If I am able to do research on a topic of my choosing it actually has applications for the real world.
A 25 page 'dissertation" come on, what a joke.
And using SPSS, what are you, is that joke? What a shitty ass program. Might as well run regressions in Excel. And who claims their stat software in their paper, this isn't 8th grade. Fucking uk school system. And to that other bro backing me up, there are far more pointless majors than psych and english. Try anthropology, political science, sociology, classics, kinesiology, the list is nearly infinite.
 
Just curious, but what did you do your senior dissertation, since you're so quick to judge? And what's wrong with SPSS? That's probably the only analysis software program the university has to offer. I remember when I did my research on social cognitive impairments in schizophrenic populations at UCLA, we used SPSS. Are you claiming UCLA is using sub par statistical software for their research too?

And to the other guy, psychology is a major influential field that holds great application in many fields like marketing, sports, business, education, medicine, human resources etc. It's a growing field and is not restricted to the psychoanalytical stuff everyone stereotypes it with.
 
What stats program do you use hotshot? SPSS is about to lose the

academic market because of their licensing policies, but it hasn't

happened yet; you act like it's already antiquated. R or SAS is

obviously better if you're not afraid of command line, but your dis on

SPSS users was just pretentious. And I can tell from your dismissal of

entire disciplines that you don't know shit about them.
 
yeah, i agree, i go to wsu and we used spss for a huge sports marketing survey that i did. i don't know why that kid is writing all this bullshit in here and being an idiot.
 
kinda interesting. looking at the table though most of the personality types were about all equal in your test group. i saw that the extreme sports girls were a little more extroverted kinda expected that. interesting though.
 
Good study and analysis. Currently in the process of writing my honours dissertation now (20,000 words :/) and it is a big undertaking that should be appreciated, respect. Hopefully it will be published so more people can read it and perhaps make use of it in the wider world.
 
Get the FUCK out of this thread.

one of the few peoples whos karma is less then their post count, what a tool.

Excellent find man, thats awesome, so does this mean that people who ski are naturally going to have compatible personalities?

 
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