What factors explain extreme sport participation? A systematic review

O Hornby, G Roderique-Davies, R Heirene… - Frontiers in sports and …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Objective Extreme sport participation is growing, yet it is still not clear exactly what motivates
individuals to participate in sports where accidents can lead to serious injury or death. The …

[HTML][HTML] Ski touring on groomed slopes—Exploring an alpine winter sports trend and potential tourism product

E Happ, M Schnitzer, U Scholl-Grissemann - Tourism Management …, 2023 - Elsevier
Winter sports tourism in the Alps remains competitive and challenges destinations to
develop and offer new tourism products. Slope ski touring (SST) is an excellent example. In …

Why do we climb mountains? An exploration of features of behavioural addiction in mountaineering and the association with stress-related psychiatric disorders

L Habelt, G Kemmler, M Defrancesco, B Spanier… - European archives of …, 2023 - Springer
Common knowledge implies that individuals engaging in outdoor sports and especially in
regular and extreme mountaineering are exceptionally healthy and hardened. Physical …

Nature sports: state of the art of research

A Durán-Sánchez, J Álvarez-García, MC del Río - Nature Sports, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
In the same way, as society has been experiencing significant changes in recent years, sport
practice has evolved to acquire extraordinary importance, both socially and economically. At …

A qualitative approach on motives and aspects of risks in freeriding

A Frühauf, WAS Hardy, D Pfoestl, FG Hoellen… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Recent research has shown that there are multiple motives for participation in high-risk
sport; however these results have come from studies that consider a number of different …

Assessing risk-taking: What to measure and how to measure it

A Bran, DC Vaidis - Journal of Risk Research, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Risk-taking has been a major field of interest for scientists and for applied purposes since
decades. However, many researchers have noted that the current measurement instruments …

Understanding action and adventure sports participation—an ecological dynamics perspective

T Immonen, E Brymer, D Orth, K Davids, F Feletti… - Sports Medicine …, 2017 - Springer
Previous research has considered action and adventure sports using a variety of associated
terms and definitions which has led to confusing discourse and contradictory research …

Understanding the motivations of serious leisure participation: A self-determination approach

KF Lee, A Ewert - Annals of Leisure Research, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The purpose of this study was to examine the associations between serious leisure (SL) and
quality of motivation, in line with self-determination theory (SDT). The SL perspective was …

An exploratory study of extreme sport athletes' nature interactions: From well-being to pro-environmental behavior

TE MacIntyre, AM Walkin, J Beckmann… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Traditionally, perceptions about extreme sport athletes being disconnected from nature and
a risk-taking population have permeated the research literature. Drawing upon theoretical …

Personality and risk: Beyond daredevils—risk taking from a temperament perspective

M Lauriola, J Weller - Psychological perspectives on risk and risk analysis …, 2018 - Springer
We reviewed studies relating risk taking to personality traits. This search long has been
elusive due to the large number of definitions of risk and to the variety of personality traits …