Sadra Medical Journal

The role of cognitive abilities and sensation seeking in reasoned and reactive high risk behaviors: The mediational model of future orientation and calculation

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Afshin Hashemi 1
Sajad Aminimanesh 2
Mahbobeh Chinaveh 3
Mostafa Khanzadeh 4

1 Department of Psychology, Arsanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arsanjan, Iran

2 Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz Branch, Shiraz, Iran

3 Faculty of Humanities, Islamic Azad University, Arsanjan Branch, Arsanjan, Iran

4 Department of Psychology, Feizoleslam Non-profit Higher Education Institute, Khomeinishahr, Iran

https://doi.org/10.30476/smsj.2025.102553.1528
Abstract
Introduction: The present study aimed to investigate the mediating role of cost-benefit estimation, future orientation in the relationship between sensation seeking and cognitive abilities with reasoned and reactive high-risk behaviors.
Methods: The study design was correlational and structural equation modeling. The statistical population of the research was male adolescents in Shiraz city of which 500 were selected using convenience sampling method. The research data collected using questionnaires of cognitive abilities, future orientation, calculation, rational and impulsive risky behavior and the sensation seeking scale. Data was analyzed using the structural equation modeling method and SPSS-26 and AMOS-26.
Results: The findings of the present study showed a significant correlation of all research variables with each other (p<0.001). Reasoned risky behavior had a negative relationship with sensation seeking and a positive relationship with other research variables. The results of structural equation modeling showed that the two variables of cost and benefit estimation and future orientation have a mediating role in the relationship between sensation seeking and reasoned risky behavior (p<0.01). Moreover, these two variables had a mediating role in the relationship between cognitive abilities and reasoned risky behavior (p<0.01).
Conclusion: According to the results of the current research, it seems necessary to pay attention to the role of executive functions, including cost-benefit estimation, future orientation in preventing reactive high-risk behaviors. Paying attention to these two variables can be beneficial in reducing the occurrence of high-risk behaviors in general and in changing the occurrence pattern of these behaviors from reactive to reactive

Keywords

Reasoned and Reactive Risky Behavior
Sensation Seeking
Future Orientation
Cognitive Abilities
Cost-benefit Estimation
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Sadra Medical Journal
Volume 13, Issue 3
Summer 2025
Pages 521-534

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