Risk-Taking
Document Type
Contribution to Book
Publication Date
2010
Publication Title
The Encyclopedia of Adolescence
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1695-2_15
ISBN
978-3-319-32132-5
Abstract
Research has examined a wide range of factors that are associated with adolescent risk-taking, drawn from across academic subdisciplines. These factors and their role in adolescent risk-taking tend to be examined in isolation of other factors, which poses problems for gaining a clear understanding of adolescent risk-taking. The present essay reviews a number of these factors – specifically, social-contextual influences, cognitive and affective decision-making tendencies, impulsivity, sensation seeking, and sex differences – and organizes them within an opportunity-propensity framework. The implications of this approach for risk-taking interventions are briefly discussed.
Recommended Citation
Boyer, Ty W., James P. Byrnes.
2010.
"Risk-Taking."
The Encyclopedia of Adolescence, Roger J. R. Levesque (Ed.): 2394-2399: Springer.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1695-2_15 source: https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4419-1695-2_15 isbn: 978-3-319-32132-5
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/psych-facpubs/66
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