The Risk Propensity Task (PTR): a proposal for a behavioral performance-based computer test for assessing risk propensity
Individual differences in risk propensity have been traditionally assessed by self-report. These instruments are sensitive to response distor-tion which is not easy to deal with. The paper presents a new objective behavioral performance-based assessment instrument for assessing risk propensity: the...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2011 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| Repositorio: | Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/674772 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10486/674772 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Risk propensity Computer based test Objective personality assessment Behavioral performance-based test Tendencia al riesgo Test informatizado Evaluación objetiva de la personalidad Test comportamental Psicología |
| Sumario: | Individual differences in risk propensity have been traditionally assessed by self-report. These instruments are sensitive to response distor-tion which is not easy to deal with. The paper presents a new objective behavioral performance-based assessment instrument for assessing risk propensity: the Risk Propensity Task (PTR), and its psychometric proper-ties. The first study (N = 234) explores reliability and dimensionality of the PTR. Results show high internal consistency (alpha = .94), and ade-quate dimensionality. The second study (N = 59) analyzes PTR conver-gent and incremental validity, using a Sensation Seeking questionnaire (SSS-V), risk-taking behavior self-reports (RTI, SRB) and another per-formance-based test (BDT). Results show significant correlations between PTR scores and the other instrument scores. The amount of variance ex-plained by the other measures used increases by 6.7% with the PTR. These results indicate that the PTR may be a useful tool in the assessment of risk propensity |
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