Construction and Standardization of Unhealthy Risk Taking Behaviour Scale

Mahmood Ahmad Khan; Syed Ishfaq Ahmad Shah

Volume : IV, Issue : VII, July - 2015

Construction and Standardization of Unhealthy Risk Taking Behaviour Scale

Mahmood Ahmad Khan, Syed Ishfaq Ahmad Shah

Abstract :

The study aimed at constructing and standardizing the Risk Taking Behaviour Scale to measure unhealthy risk taking behaviour. The scale consists of 80 items covering five dimensions viz: (A) Academic Risk, (B) Social Risk, (C) Future/Goals Risk, (D) Adventurous Risk and (E) Security/Peace Risk with 16 items in each dimension. The reliability coefficient of the scale has come out 0.67and validity coefficient 0.63.