(a.) Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ten of the 16 primary 16PF scores were significantly different and generally described an altruistic but assertive and venturesome propensity to manage others.
(2) Both impulsiveness and venturesomeness were found to be multidimensional, although the subfactors differed slightly from those suggested by the Eysencks.
(3) CAF's own Venturesome fund has been going 10 years, but it depends on philanthropists donating money that is then recycled over and over as charities pay it back at very low interest – or else donors get their capital back without interest.
(4) Results indicate that Factor C (high ego strength), Factor F (liveliness and enthusiasm), Factor H (venturesomeness), Factor Q1 (experimenting), Factor Q3 (high self-concept integration), Factor Q4 (tenseness), Factor QII (anxiety) are significantly related to one or more index of success (satisfaction, size of practice, income and professional advancement).
(5) Measures included the Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory, Diagnostic Interview Schedule Antisocial Personality Disorder diagnosis, Elliott-Huizinga Lifetime Events Scale, Eysenck's Impulsiveness-Venturesomeness-Empathy scales, and a laboratory measure of aggression patterned after the Buss 'aggression machine'.
(6) Impulsivity and venturesomeness were uncorrelated with alcohol use and responses to alcohol in females, but as with males, impulsivity was related to the occurrence of alcohol use problems in females.
(7) The Go CNV recorded at the vertex was found to relate to a variety of impulsiveness-related measures, in particular to Eysenck's Impulsivity, Venturesomeness and Psychoticism.
(8) The personality traits of "venturesomeness" and "impulsiveness" were significantly correlated with all three recklessness factors.
(9) This study investigates the structures of impulsiveness and venturesomeness and their association with extraversion, emotional stability-neuroticism, and psychoticism among 170 Australian adolescents.
(10) Three hundred forty-two male and female subjects from the Colorado Alcohol Research on Twins and Adoptees returned a mailed questionnaire that included the Eysenck Impulsivity-Venturesomeness-Empathy scales.
(11) No support was found for the view that impulsiveness narrowly defined is pathological, although the impulsiveness and venturesomeness subfactors were found to be differentially related to extraversion, emotional stability-neuroticism, and psychoticism.
(12) Associations between platelet monoamine oxidase (MAO) activity and scale scores from the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, the Impulsiveness-Venturesomeness-Empathy inventory and the Karolinska Scales of Personality were studied in 32 female and 29 male students (age range 17-19 years).
(13) On the fifth day of testing, control rats were most venturesome in the open field.
(14) Impulsivity was significantly correlated with higher levels of self-reported alcohol use and the occurrence of alcohol use problems in males, while both impulsivity and venturesomeness (sensation seeking) were significantly correlated with lessened motor impairment following alcohol use in males.
Venturesomely
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Ten of the 16 primary 16PF scores were significantly different and generally described an altruistic but assertive and venturesome propensity to manage others.
(2) Both impulsiveness and venturesomeness were found to be multidimensional, although the subfactors differed slightly from those suggested by the Eysencks.
(3) CAF's own Venturesome fund has been going 10 years, but it depends on philanthropists donating money that is then recycled over and over as charities pay it back at very low interest – or else donors get their capital back without interest.
(4) Results indicate that Factor C (high ego strength), Factor F (liveliness and enthusiasm), Factor H (venturesomeness), Factor Q1 (experimenting), Factor Q3 (high self-concept integration), Factor Q4 (tenseness), Factor QII (anxiety) are significantly related to one or more index of success (satisfaction, size of practice, income and professional advancement).
(5) Measures included the Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory, Diagnostic Interview Schedule Antisocial Personality Disorder diagnosis, Elliott-Huizinga Lifetime Events Scale, Eysenck's Impulsiveness-Venturesomeness-Empathy scales, and a laboratory measure of aggression patterned after the Buss 'aggression machine'.
(6) Impulsivity and venturesomeness were uncorrelated with alcohol use and responses to alcohol in females, but as with males, impulsivity was related to the occurrence of alcohol use problems in females.
(7) The Go CNV recorded at the vertex was found to relate to a variety of impulsiveness-related measures, in particular to Eysenck's Impulsivity, Venturesomeness and Psychoticism.
(8) The personality traits of "venturesomeness" and "impulsiveness" were significantly correlated with all three recklessness factors.
(9) This study investigates the structures of impulsiveness and venturesomeness and their association with extraversion, emotional stability-neuroticism, and psychoticism among 170 Australian adolescents.
(10) Three hundred forty-two male and female subjects from the Colorado Alcohol Research on Twins and Adoptees returned a mailed questionnaire that included the Eysenck Impulsivity-Venturesomeness-Empathy scales.
(11) No support was found for the view that impulsiveness narrowly defined is pathological, although the impulsiveness and venturesomeness subfactors were found to be differentially related to extraversion, emotional stability-neuroticism, and psychoticism.
(12) Associations between platelet monoamine oxidase (MAO) activity and scale scores from the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, the Impulsiveness-Venturesomeness-Empathy inventory and the Karolinska Scales of Personality were studied in 32 female and 29 male students (age range 17-19 years).
(13) On the fifth day of testing, control rats were most venturesome in the open field.
(14) Impulsivity was significantly correlated with higher levels of self-reported alcohol use and the occurrence of alcohol use problems in males, while both impulsivity and venturesomeness (sensation seeking) were significantly correlated with lessened motor impairment following alcohol use in males.