Lowell begins to show something of the venturesomeness of Brecht.
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It seemed there was no place for venturesomeness in the modern world.
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The last drop of ancestral venturesomeness had not been distilled from his blood.
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The Eysenck Impulsiveness Scale (EIS) is a 54-item yes/no questionnaire designed to measure impulsiveness. Three subscales are computed from this measure: Impulsiveness, Venturesomeness, and Empathy. Impulsiveness is defined as "behaving without thinking and without realizing the risk involved in the behavior". Venturesomeness is conceptualized as "being conscious of the risk of the behavior but acting anyway" The questionnaire was constructed through factor analysis to contain items that most highly loaded on impulsiveness and venturesomeness.
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And if that something happens to seem pretty dubious, or even flat-out dumb — well, perhaps that's venturesomeness for you.
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The person who is tough-minded about getting on in his profession or job will cultivate qualities of initiative and venturesomeness.
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Given that emphasis, it is not surprising that it is the pope's institutional strictures, not his optimism and venturesomeness, that capture the headlines.
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In preparing Southern Honor, I found the same resilience and venturesomeness in the plantation girls that Fox-Genovese conveys through Gayle's diary in this opening scene.
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Sometimes the influences combine awkwardly, making her work seem a little strained and quirky, but often enough her venturesomeness pays off, producing images of eloquence and power.
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For instance, the only measure on the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire that was directly related to functional impulsivity measured venturesomeness. The Dickman Impulsivity Inventory has been translated into many languages and a children's version has been developed. Each scale has found a significant difference between functional and dysfunctional impulsivity.
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This scale includes 63 items of which 23 are related to dysfunctional impulsivity, 17 are related to functional impulsivity, and 23 are filler questions that relate to neither construct. This scale has been developed into a version for use with childrenBrunas- Wagstaff, J., Tilley, A., Verity, M., Ford, S., & Thompson, D. (1997). Functional and dysfunctional impulsivity in children and their relationship to Eysenck's impulsiveness and venturesomeness dimensions. Personality and Individual Differences, 22(1), 19–35.
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Impulsivity referred to the tendency to focus on attaining immediate benefit, rather than delaying gratification. Sexual venturesomeness was characterized by extraversion and desire for variety in sexual interactions; individuals who scored high on this trait tended to avoid safe, precautionary measures. In other work, Cooper and her colleagues investigated the motivations to consume alcohol of 393 "community-recruited drinkers." They distinguished four types of motivation to use alcohol: self-focused enhancement, self-focused avoidance, social approach, and social avoidance.
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They observed that, on average, youth initiated sexual activity at 15.5 years of age, while initiating alcohol consumption at 16.4 years of age. Males engaged in sexual behavior about a year earlier than females, and blacks engaged earlier than other race/ethnicities. Adolescent males exhibited a strong correlation between alcohol use and risky sexual behaviors, whereas this relationship emerged later in females. Cooper's team focused on five personality traits including communal orientation, agency, negative emotionality, impulsivity, and sexual venturesomeness that might be related to risky behavior in adolescents.
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Astaire dancing on the walls and ceiling for "You're All the World to Me""You're All the World to Me" originated (with different lyrics) as "I Want to Be a Minstrel Man" in the Eddie Cantor musical Kid Millions (1934). from Royal Wedding (1951) Astaire was a virtuoso dancer, able when called for to convey light-hearted venturesomeness or deep emotion. His technical control and sense of rhythm were astonishing. Long after the photography for the solo dance number "I Want to Be a Dancin' Man" was completed for the 1952 feature The Belle of New York, it was decided that Astaire's humble costume and the threadbare stage set were inadequate and the entire sequence was reshot.
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Many of the questions used in the Dickman Impulsivity Inventory mirror those used on past questionnaires, and are used to assess overall impulsivity. Of the 23 questions on the Dickman Impulsivity Inventory, 12 of the items are used to measure dysfunctional impulsivity. This includes questions such as “I often get into trouble because I don’t think before I act” as well as “I often say and do things without considering the consequences” This scale has been adapted for use in children with similar results: clear distinctions between functional and dysfunctional impulsivity.Brunas-Wagstaff, J., Tilley, A., Verity, M., Ford, S., & Thompson, D. (1997). Functional and dysfunctional impulsivity in children and their relationship to Eysenck’s impulsiveness and venturesomeness dimensions.
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