Table 3.
Correlations between risk perceptions, expected benefits, and risk taking.
| DOSPERT risk taking | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scale | Health/safety | Ethical | Recreational | Social | Gambling | Investment |
| Risk perceptions | ||||||
| Health/safety | -0.41 | -0.37 | -0.24 | -0.03 | -0.30 | -0.15 |
| Ethical | -0.28 | -0.41 | -0.21 | -0.12 | -0.25 | -0.16 |
| Recreational | -0.28 | -0.24 | -0.43 | -0.07 | -0.21 | -0.13 |
| Social | 0.02 | 0.08 | 0.06 | -0.29 | 0.10 | 0.01 |
| Gambling | -0.27 | -0.30 | -0.20 | -0.06 | -0.45 | -0.20 |
| Investment | -0.09 | -0.11 | -0.08 | -0.16 | -0.12 | -0.38 |
| Expected benefits | ||||||
| Health/safety | 0.57 | 0.53 | 0.43 | 0.11 | 0.48 | 0.28 |
| Ethical | 0.47 | 0.63 | 0.38 | 0.08 | 0.49 | 0.31 |
| Recreational | 0.39 | 0.38 | 0.70 | 0.24 | 0.35 | 0.28 |
| Social | 0.35 | 0.37 | 0.32 | 0.37 | 0.33 | 0.28 |
| Gambling | 0.46 | 0.48 | 0.39 | 0.09 | 0.66 | 0.31 |
| Investment | 0.28 | 0.35 | 0.31 | 0.13 | 0.36 | 0.58 |
|
DOSPERT Expected Benefits | ||||||
| Risk perceptions | ||||||
| Health/safety | -0.40 | -0.37 | -0.22 | -0.16 | -0.31 | -0.23 |
| Ethical | -0.28 | -0.36 | -0.25 | -0.19 | -0.23 | -0.19 |
| Recreational | -0.28 | -0.26 | -0.42 | -0.15 | -0.23 | -0.20 |
| Social | 0.31 | 0.29 | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.30 | 0.20 |
| Gambling | -0.31 | -0.32 | -0.23 | -0.19 | -0.41 | -0.25 |
| Investment | -0.01 | -0.07 | -0.10 | -0.06 | -0.05 | -0.32 |
N = 804. Within-domain correlations are in bold. Correlations greater than or equal to | 0.10| are significant at p < 0.01.