TY - JOUR
T1 - Risk-Taking
AU - Boyer, Ty W.
AU - Byrnes, James P.
PY - 2010/1/1
Y1 - 2010/1/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Risk-taking
UR - https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/psych-facpubs/66
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1695-2_15
U2 - 10.1007/978-1-4419-1695-2_15
DO - 10.1007/978-1-4419-1695-2_15
M3 - Article
JO - The Encyclopedia of Adolescence
JF - The Encyclopedia of Adolescence
ER -