Chunk #7 — Introduction — Personality Theory Advances that Clarify Risk: Multiple Dispositions Toward Rash Action

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The role of personality dispositions to risky behavior in predicting first-year college drinking.

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In recent years, there have been important advances in personality theory that have differentiated among previously confounded constructs and that have identified separate personality dispositions to engage in risky behavior [20, 21, 22, 23, 24]; these advances are likely to be informative as to the personality component of college drinking risk.