diver`s personality...help needed...

Hallo!
I`m writing my master`s thesis of Psychology about divers`personallity
(exactly anxiety) and temperament. I`m using Cattel 16PF Personality
Test
and Zuckermann Sensation Seeking Scale.


I`m looking for any infos about this question and i`m loking for
somebody who could help me in getting these publications.


Bachrach AJ and Egstrom GH. Stress and Performance in Diving. San
Pedro, California, Best Publishing, 1987, p1

Bove AA. Medical Examination of Sport Scuba Divers, 3rd edition. San
Antonio, Texas, Medical Seminars, 1998, p.20-25

Elliott DH and Bennett PB. Underwater accidents. In: Bennett PB and
Elliott DH (Eds.) The Physiology and Medicine of Diving, 4th Edition.
London, WB Saunders, 1993, p 238-252

Karpman M. The Effects of relaxation and Cognitive Rehearsal on the
Anxiety Levels and Performance of Scuba Divers. Int. J sport
Psych.1985; 16:113-119

Guedlines for recreational scuba diver`s phisycal examination,
recreational scuba trening council, Inc., 1998 and 2001

Hunt Jc. Divers` Accounts of normal risk. Symbolic interaction 1995;
18(4): 439-462.

Ingle J. Diver safety is linked with repetition training.NDC Bulletin
of British Sub-aqua Club 2000.

Morgan WP. Anxiety and panic in recerational scuba divers. Int J sports
Med. 1995; 20: 398-421

Morgan WP. Psycholigical characteristics of the Female Diver. In: Fife
Wp (ed.) Women in Diving. Bethesda, MD: Undersea Medical Society, 1987,
p. 45-54

Nevo B and Breitstein S. Psychological and Behavioral aspects of
diving. Flagstaff, Arizona, Best Publishing Co, 1999

United States Department of Commerce. NOAA Diving Manual: Diving for
sience and technology. 4th Edition. Joiner JT (Ed. Flagstaff, Arizona,
Best Publishing Co, 2001, Ch.21 p.1-4

Please, help me.


Best Regards,
Michal Kulakowski
michalkulakowski@wp.pl


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At least two of the titles you mention are available on amazon now. I
suspect a fair few are the same, have you tried amazon, or perhaps a decent
library?

/Z

"Morten Reistad" <firstname@lastname.pr1v.n0> wrote in message
news:rujbuc.lgt1.ln@via.reistad.priv.no...
> In article <36ss5nF54kd1tU1@individual.net>, <f9@freeinternet.com> wrote:
>>"michal" <michal.1k5boz@forums.deeperblue.net> wrote in message
>>news:michal.1k5boz@forums.deeperblue.net...
>>>
>>> Hallo!
>>> I`m writing my master`s thesis of Psychology about divers`personallity
>>> (exactly anxiety) and temperament. I`m using Cattel 16PF Personality
>>> Test
>>> and Zuckermann Sensation Seeking Scale.
>>>
>>>
>>> I`m looking for any infos about this question and i`m loking for
>>> somebody who could help me in getting these publications.
>
> How do you plan to obtain a repersentative sample of scuba divers out
> of the population at large?
>
> I ask, because I have had problems making such a selection to even
> give a honest estimate of the number of active divers and the amount
> of diving going on.
>
> I ended using compressor hours in compressor vendors service logs as
> an estimate of the diving activity. Just to hint of the problems involved.
>
>
>>Just ordinary people enjoying a sport. We're not sky divers you know.
>
> Sky divers are a lot easier to count. You need officially sanctioned
> aircraft on officially logged trips to sky dive.
>
> -- mrr

You are missing the point. Who cares about personalities - it takes all
sorts. Ive been diving for years and met the complete range of people from
nutters to exceptionally nice sensible people.

The inherent need to count and categorise people's characters tells you
nothing about those who take part in the sport. If you really want to know
about people - go ask them face to face. If you want to know about why
'alledged' dangerous sports are on the increase I susgest you read:

Beck, U. (1992) RISK SOCIETY : TOWARDS A NEW MODERNITY. London : Sage.

On the problem of using surveys over interviews try:

Bellaby, P., Lawrenson, D. (2001) 'APPROACHES TO THE RISK OF RIDING
MOTORCYCLES : REFLECTIONS ON THE PROBLEM OF RECONCILING STATISTICAL RISK
ASSESSMENT AND MOTOCYCLISTS' OWN REASONS FOR RIDING', The Sociological
Review, 49 (3):368-388

It's a real eye opener.

In article <36ua71F558otiU1@individual.net>, <f9@freeinternet.com> wrote:
>"Morten Reistad" <firstname@lastname.pr1v.n0> wrote in message
>news:rujbuc.lgt1.ln@via.reistad.priv.no...
>> In article <36ss5nF54kd1tU1@individual.net>, <f9@freeinternet.com> wrote:
>>>"michal" <michal.1k5boz@forums.deeperblue.net> wrote in message
>>>news:michal.1k5boz@forums.deeperblue.net...
>>>>
>>>> Hallo!
>>>> I`m writing my master`s thesis of Psychology about divers`personallity
>>>> (exactly anxiety) and temperament. I`m using Cattel 16PF Personality
>>>> Test
>>>> and Zuckermann Sensation Seeking Scale.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I`m looking for any infos about this question and i`m loking for
>>>> somebody who could help me in getting these publications.
>>
>> How do you plan to obtain a repersentative sample of scuba divers out
>> of the population at large?
>>
>> I ask, because I have had problems making such a selection to even
>> give a honest estimate of the number of active divers and the amount
>> of diving going on.
>>
>> I ended using compressor hours in compressor vendors service logs as
>> an estimate of the diving activity. Just to hint of the problems involved.
>>
>>
>>>Just ordinary people enjoying a sport. We're not sky divers you know.
>>
>> Sky divers are a lot easier to count. You need officially sanctioned
>> aircraft on officially logged trips to sky dive.
>>
>> -- mrr
>
>You are missing the point. Who cares about personalities - it takes all
>sorts. Ive been diving for years and met the complete range of people from
>nutters to exceptionally nice sensible people.

I just pointed out that Scuba diving is exceptionally difficult
to ping down in any cause/effect scenario. When seasoned statisticians
cannot even count them you know there is a problem; because you cannot
establish the control groups.

In Norway we probably have around 20% of the population in the group
"have performed a scuba dive", a few % less in the ever certified
category, but the number of active divers is somewhere in the 4-9% range;
enough of a spread to foul all attempts of making hard numbers.

>The inherent need to count and categorise people's characters tells you
>nothing about those who take part in the sport. If you really want to know
>about people - go ask them face to face. If you want to know about why
>'alledged' dangerous sports are on the increase I susgest you read:
>
>Beck, U. (1992) RISK SOCIETY : TOWARDS A NEW MODERNITY. London : Sage.
>
>On the problem of using surveys over interviews try:
>
>Bellaby, P., Lawrenson, D. (2001) 'APPROACHES TO THE RISK OF RIDING
>MOTORCYCLES : REFLECTIONS ON THE PROBLEM OF RECONCILING STATISTICAL RISK
>ASSESSMENT AND MOTOCYCLISTS' OWN REASONS FOR RIDING', The Sociological
>Review, 49 (3):368-388
>
>It's a real eye opener.

I don't have access to those; but assume they pinpoint the problems
of using surveys and to categorize using pre-made forms; because the
range is so varied, and it is the "Unplanned outlayers" that form the
meaningful statistics.

And back to the original poster; I am seriously interested in how you
solve the problem of a reference; i.e. a control group.

-- mrr