Under Risk

The aim of this paper is to observe how the university students define risk. Firstly we try to explore how our subjects use this expression (i.e. how they define risk). Their answers were tested with content analysis technique, which helped us to highlight the most important attitudes of our subjects. In the second part we focused on five risk domains (originally tested by Blais & Weber, 2006). Because everybody will have different risk attitudes, when making decision involving ethical, financial, health or safety, recreational, and social risks. Although the pilot-survey was tested by MsC students this part contained a methodological problem, so this result could not be reliable. In the last part, according to the Domain-Specific Risk Taking Scale (Blais & Weber, 2006) we try to find differences between Risk-Taking’, ‘Risk-Perceptions’, and ‘Expected Benefits’. Our research shows that risk definition could be divided into different meaning-groups and the respondents will order the different type of risks. Furthermore, our results indicate how can we use this validated psychometric scale for our population in the future