The Prediction of Student's Inclination to Embark on Risky Behaviors for Excitement and Self-competence (A critical case study)

In his research, the author has aimed at the prediction of the inclination of university students to embark on risky behaviors for excitement and self-competence. This project is of a solidarity kind. The statistical society included all the bachelor students of Payam Nur University of Ardebil in 2015-2016 academic years. The samples were 290 students selected simply at random from different departments. The means of research included the measure for the risk of Iranian youths )Muhammadizadah and Ahmandabadi 1390(, the measure of excitement of Zukerman, and the measure of self-competence of Schwartz )1995(. The outcome of Pierson’s multiplier of solidarity suggested that the feeling of selfcompetence 0/38 and excitement 0/32 have a meaningful relation to risky behavior )P>0/01(. The step by step regression analysis suggested that the feeling of selfcompetence explains 35 percent of the variance and the non-deterring of the elements of excitement explains 41percent of the variance of the inclination towards risky behaviors )P>0/001(.