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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"adolescent risk taking"”.
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Predicting Adolescent Risk-Taking And Goal-Oriented Behaviors: An Ecological Perspective
… individuals partake in the greatest amount of risk-taking behaviors. These behaviors often include having unsafe sex, drug and alcohol use, smoking and recklessness. On the other hand, goal oriented behaviors are also developing, although these have been less well studied. The current study …
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Ages of Engagement in Risk Taking and Self-Harm: An Investigation of the Dual Systems Model of Adolescent Risk Taking
<p>Risk taking (RT) and self-harm (SH) are clinically, conceptually, and empirically<br />related, yet separate constructs, which occur most frequently during adolescence. The current study utilized retrospective reports of college students to determine reported ages of engagement in RT and SH …
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The Effect of Peer Presence on Risk Taking Behavior Among Late Adolescents
… study used an experimental method to examine risk-taking in a simulated environment involving risky driving behaviors. The study examined the effects of peer presence on risk-taking behavior among late adolescents and explored a potential mechanism of said effect, emotional arousal. Given the …
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Exploring Contemporary Risk-Taking in Canadian Adolescents
This thesis explored contemporary risk-taking within the Canadian adolescent population. It involved two quantitative studies and one qualitative study. Quantitatively, it involved a psychometric analysis to develop and validate new adolescent risk-taking scales focused on engagement in …
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Integrating emotion and cognition in the pathway from adolescent religiousness to risk taking
… has demonstrated an association between higher adolescent religiousness and lower risk taking via higher self-regulation. However, the present study uniquely sought to elucidate whether particular dimensions of self-regulation (i.e., emotion regulation, effortful control, and executive function) …
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Future Orientation as a Mediating Factor in the Relation Between Family Instability and Adolescent Problem Behavior: A Moderated Mediation Model
Adolescent delinquency represents a significant threat to the health and future of developing persons. Due to the important implications of adolescent problem behaviors, it is essential that we understand the complex mechanisms in the life and mind of a developing person that may lead to these …
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Risk-Taking Behaviour and School Injury in Canadian Adolescents
Background: Adolescent school injuries are common and often result in serious consequences. Problem risk behaviours are known causes of injury and interventions have targeted these independent behaviours with modest success in the past. Although there is some research investigating relationships …
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Parental Monitoring of Adolescents by Ethnically and Economically Diverse Mothers
… based on ethnicity, income, and age of adolescent were surveyed about their beliefs about the importance of monitoring strategies and use of monitoring strategies. Results suggested that African American mothers believe more in solicitation and less in giving adolescents a lot of freedom …
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Neuroeconomic Predictors of Adolescent Risky Decision-Making
… Center for Disease Control, approximately 70% of adolescent deaths in the United States are due to risky behaviors such as reckless driving and risky sexual behavior (Kann et al., 2016). In order to better understand what drives adolescent risk-taking, the current studies utilized an …
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Examining the Role of Physiological Arousal in Laboratory Risk-Taking in Social and Non-Social Contexts
Current theoretical models attribute the rise in risk-taking during adolescence to heightened activity in reward processing brain regions when in the presence of social and non-social rewarding stimuli. However, non-rewarding, but very salient stimuli, have also been shown to increase activity in …
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Self-Regulation and Adolescent Decision-Making
… considered a developmental period of increased risk-taking, however, recent research has advocated for a more specific approach to describing decision-making and consideration of information contexts risks occur in. The current study utilizes a task that allows for a behavioral distinction …
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Personality And Risk-Taking Behaviors In Emerging Adulthood
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>PERSONALITY AND RISK-TAKING BEHAVIORS IN EMERGING ADULTHOOD</p> <p>by</p> <p> </p> <p>AGNES WARD</p> <p> </p> <p>December 2010</p> <p> </p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Stephen B. Hillman</p> <p> </p> <p>Major: Educational Psychology </p> <p> </p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy </p> <p> </p> …
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Investigating the perceptions of learners, teachers and programme implementers regarding the value of non-formal sexuality education programmes in Rundu circuit, Kavango East region
… educational, and economic factors influencing adolescent risk-taking behaviours. These factors are; peer pressure, poverty, low self-esteem, imitation, fear of losing a boyfriend, and ignorance. The negative social, cultural, economic and educational consequences of teenage pregnancy are …
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Adolescent Males Involvement in Pregnancy Prevention: Deliberate Action to Protect Future Goals
… qualitative study was to explore the process of adolescent male involvement in teen pregnancy prevention. Grounded theory method was used to discover the meaning of pregnancy prevention from the adolescent male perspective. Individual interviews were conducted with eighteen 18-year old boys who …
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Cultural and Psychological Predictors of Adolescent Smoking Behaviors
… group was selected because it is the time when adolescents are most likely to first try smoking. There were 51.2% males and 48.8% females in the sample. The ethnic makeup of students who participated was 71.4% Latino, 14.3% Mixed race, 9.5% Other, 2.4% African American, 2.4% Asian-American, and …
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Structure of Aggression among Urban Youth: Competing Factor Models of Subtypes of Physical and Relational Aggression
Aggression has been demonstrated to pose a serious threat to the adaptive development of youth, with decades of research demonstrating the negative associations between aggression and other problem behaviors, both concurrently and predictively. However, despite this body of research, the current …