Personality Reliability Under Risk Conditions

Abstract

The research is devoted to testing the hypothesis of the inverse relationship between risk appetite and personal reliability. The study that involved students of Baikal State University, 26 girls and 22 boys from 18 to 20 years, was carried out with the help of hardware methods "AC-9K Activationometer”. The relationship between such indicators as the propensity to risk in a background situation and the propensity to risk in a significant situation was discovered. Thus, the higher the first indicator of the subject, the higher the second. The risk appetite increases when the instructions are changed and possible gains and losses are added. Most of the subjects have a high propensity for risk, but at the same time the stability characteristic of psychomotor activity is below average. There is a quite strong correlation between the propensity to risk in the background situation and the success rate in the background situation while the correlation between the indicator of self-regulation of thinking and the propensity to risk is inverse, weak. In this case, we can assume the presence of the following trend: the higher the indicator of self-regulation of thinking, the less the subjects are inclined to take risks. The relationship between the propensity to risk and the characteristic of stability in a risky situation has received a negative value. It means that the higher the propensity to risk, the lower the stability characteristic in a risky situation. A direct relationship between self-regulation of thinking and psycho-emotional stability proved that the higher the psycho-emotional stability, the higher the indicator of self-regulation of thinking. The hypothesis that there is a feedback between risk-taking and the reliability of the individual in a significant situation as well as the correlation between psycho-emotional stability and the success of hits have been confirmed.