Michel G, Carton S, Jouvent R
C.N.R.S. URA 1957 Personnalité et conduites adaptatives, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris.
Encephale. 1997 Nov-Dec;23(6):403-11.
This study presents the investigation of the relations between sensation seeking (41) and anhedonia in 80 subjects who practice a risk taking sport, bengy jump. These relations were examined according to different variables which characterize the practice of bengy jump: the total number of previous jumps and the motivations to jump (1. personal motivation, 2. professional motivation--working in the jumping organization, and 3. group motivation--for example being leaded to jump by friends). We also assessed the use of psychoactive substances. All jumpers (men and women) have higher scores than control subjects in Thrill and adventure seeking dimension. In men, the more the subjects score on this dimension, the less they score on the physical anhedonia scale (8). In women, Experience Seeking and Boredom Susceptibility dimensions are positively correlated with physical anhedonia and with the number of jumps. Moreover, women with personal motivation are those who score the highest on Thrill and Adventure Seeking and Boredom Susceptibility dimensions. These results suggest that in women, sensation seeking through bengy jumping may be linked to a boredom tendency and driven by a need to compensate for a difficulty in experiencing emotions and sensations from common and mundane stimuli. In men, high frequency of bengy jumping was negatively related to the use of psychoactive substances, suggesting that bengy jump, in a compulsive form recalling an addictive behavior, is a specific and preferential way of stimulation seeking.
本研究对80名从事冒险运动——蹦极的受试者进行了感觉寻求与快感缺乏之间关系的调查。根据蹦极运动的不同特征变量来考察这些关系：之前蹦极的总次数以及蹦极的动机（1.个人动机，2.职业动机——在蹦极组织工作，3.群体动机——例如被朋友带领去蹦极）。我们还评估了精神活性物质的使用情况。所有蹦极者（男性和女性）在刺激与冒险寻求维度上的得分均高于对照组。在男性中，该维度得分越高，其在身体快感缺乏量表上的得分越低（8）。在女性中，体验寻求和无聊易感性维度与身体快感缺乏以及蹦极次数呈正相关。此外，具有个人动机的女性在刺激与冒险寻求以及无聊易感性维度上得分最高。这些结果表明，在女性中，通过蹦极寻求感觉可能与无聊倾向有关，并且是由补偿从普通和平凡刺激中体验情感和感觉困难的需求所驱动。在男性中，频繁蹦极与精神活性物质的使用呈负相关，这表明以强迫形式让人联想到成瘾行为的蹦极，是一种寻求刺激的特定且优先方式。
