Structure of the Dospert: Is There Evidence for a General Risk Factor?

• Published in: Journal of behavioral decision making Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 400 - 406
• Main Authors: Highhouse, Scott, Nye, Christopher D., Zhang, Don C., Rada, Thaddeus B.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester Wiley Periodicals Inc 01.04.2017
• Subjects: bifactor analysis; Decision making; DOSPERT; personality; Risk; risk taking

The Domain‐specific Risk‐taking scale was designed to assess risk taking in specific domains. This approach is unconventional in personality assessment but reflects conventional wisdom in the decision community that cross‐situational consistency in risk taking is more myth than reality. We applied b...