The relationship between risk-taking and negative emotions with respect to openness towards feelings

In a quasi-experimental study, a randomly selected sample of 200 university students was given questionnaires: one to measure personal risk-taking behavior, with reliability of 0.76, and the other to assess the characteristic of openness towards feelings, with reliability of 0.71. Then the sample was randomly divided into two subgroups, one of which was subjected to negative emotions. Analysis of the data revealed that those with high negative emotions, as well as those with low openness towards feelings have more risk-taking behaviors. Furthermore, among those with low openness, the more negative are emotions, the higher is the level of risk-taking.