Targeting adolescent risk-taking behaviors: the contributions of egocentrism and sensation-seeking

2000 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
KATHRYN GREENE ◽  
MARINA KRCMAR ◽  
LYNDA H WALTERS ◽  
DONALD L RUBIN ◽  
JEROLD ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Adolescent Risk ◽  
Risk Taking Behaviors

Positive risk-taking: Mixed-methods validation of a self-report scale and evidence for genetic links to personality and negative risk-taking

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Wales Patterson ◽  
Lilla Pivnick ◽  
Frank D Mann ◽  
Andrew D Grotzinger ◽  
Kathryn C Monahan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Positive Behaviors ◽  
Adolescent Risk

Adolescents are more likely to take risks. Typically, research on adolescent risk-taking has focused on its negative health and societal consequences. However, some risk-taking behaviors might be positive, defined here as behavior that does not violate the rights of others and that might advance socially-valuable goals. Empirical work on positive risk-taking has been limited by measurement challenges. In this study, we elicited adolescents’ free responses (n = 75) about a time they took a risk. Based on thematic coding, we identified positive behaviors described as risks and selected items to form a self-report scale. The resulting positive risk-taking scale was quantitatively validated in a population-based sample of adolescent twins (n = 1249). Second, we evaluated associations between positive risk-taking, negative risk-taking, and potential personality and peer correlates using a genetically informed design. Sensation seeking predicted negative and positive risk-taking equally strongly, whereas extraversion differentiated forms of risk-taking. Additive genetic influences on personality accounted for the total heritability in positive risk-taking. Indirect pathways from personality through positive and negative peer environments were identified. These results provide promising evidence that personality factors of sensation seeking and extraversion can manifest as engagement in positive risks. Increased understanding of positive manifestations of adolescent risk-taking may yield targets for positive youth development strategies to bolster youth well-being.

Longitudinal Increases in Parent–Child Relationship Quality and Sensation Seeking Interact to Increase Risk-Taking During the College Transition

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
João F. Guassi Moreira ◽  
Eva H. Telzer
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Quality ◽  
College Transition ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Risky Behaviors ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Risk Taking Behaviors ◽  
Parent Child

We tested two competing predictions of whether changes in parent–child relationship quality buffer or exacerbate the association between sensation-seeking and risk-taking behaviors as individuals gain more independence during the high school–college transition. In the current longitudinal study, 287 participants completed self-report measures of sensation seeking, risk-taking, and parent–child relationship quality with their parents prior to starting college and again during their first semester. Overall, students displayed increases in risky behaviors, which were predicted by sensation seeking. Changes in relationship quality moderated the association between sensation seeking and risk-taking, such that sensation seeking predicted higher risk-taking behaviors during the first semester of college, but only for those who reported increases in relationship quality across the college transition. These results suggest that increased relationship quality may have an inadvertent spillover effect by interacting with sensation seeking to increase risky behaviors.

Student Risk-Taking Behaviors: When Do School Counselors Break Confidentiality?

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 2156759X0801100
Author(s):  
Michael Moyer ◽  
Jeremy Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
School Counselors ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
The United States ◽  
High School Counselors ◽  
Adolescent Risk ◽  
Student Risk ◽  
Perceived Dangerousness ◽  
Risk Taking Behaviors

A total of 204 middle and high school counselors from across the United States responded to a survey in which they were asked to determine whether they view specific adolescent risk-taking behaviors of varying intensity, frequency, and duration as warranting parental notification. Results suggest that counselors’ perceptions that it is ethical to break confidentiality and report the risk-taking behaviors increased when the behaviors were more intense, more frequent, and of longer duration. Further, although there was less ambiguity regarding the perceived dangerousness of some behaviors (e.g., suicidal ideation), all behaviors showed some variance or disagreement among respondents with regard to their willingness to break confidentiality. Implications and suggestions for school counselors are considered.

scholarly journals Beyond Sensation Seeking: Affect Regulation as a Framework for Predicting Risk-Taking Behaviors in High-Risk Sport

2010 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 731-738 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carole Castanier ◽  
Christine Le Scanff ◽  
Tim Woodman
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Affect Regulation ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Negative Affectivity ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Risk Taking Behaviors

Sensation seeking has been widely studied when investigating individual differences in the propensity for taking risks. However, risk taking can serve many different goals beyond the simple management of physiological arousal. The present study is an investigation of affect self-regulation as a predictor of risk-taking behaviors in high-risk sport. Risk-taking behaviors, negative affectivity, escape self-awareness strategy, and sensation seeking data were obtained from 265 high-risk sportsmen. Moderated hierarchical regression analysis revealed significant main and interaction effects of negative affectivity and escape self-awareness strategy in predicting risk-taking behaviors: high-risk sportsmen’s negative affectivity leads them to adopt risk-taking behaviors only if they also use escape self-awareness strategy. Furthermore, the affective model remained significant when controlling for sensation seeking. The present study contributes to an in-depth understanding of risk taking in high-risk sport.

Adolescent Risk-Taking Behaviors: When Do Student Counselors Break Confidentiality?

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 178-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Lloyd-Hazlett ◽  
Michael Shufelt Moyer ◽  
Jeremy R. Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Adolescent Risk ◽  
Student Counselors ◽  
Risk Taking Behaviors

scholarly journals Parental Presence in the Home and Adolescent Risk-taking Behaviors: Does it matter?

2014 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. S90-S91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebekah J. Savage ◽  
Tamera Coyne-Beasley ◽  
Asheley Skinner ◽  
Chassidy J. Hanley ◽  
Krysten F. Sessoms
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Parental Presence ◽  
Adolescent Risk ◽  
Risk Taking Behaviors

scholarly journals Classroom-Based Surveys of Adolescent Risk-Taking Behaviors: Reducing the Bias of Absenteeism

2002 ◽  
Vol 92 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Guttmacher ◽  
Beth C. Weitzman ◽  
Farzana Kapadia ◽  
Sharon L. Weinberg
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Adolescent Risk ◽  
Risk Taking Behaviors

scholarly journals 大学生冒险行为的心理学解读

2019 ◽  
Vol 01 (02) ◽  
pp. 67-73
Author(s):  
静 许 ◽  
秀君 杨
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Clinical Case ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Adolescent Risk ◽  
Risk Taking Behavior ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Risk Taking Behaviors

从青少年期冒险行为的界定和大学生心理发展特点入手，从心理学视角提出大学生冒险行为的几种可能解释，然后结合实际心理咨询案例片段，分析大学生冒险行为背后的心理动力，帮助咨询师更好地理解大学生冒险行为，让其积极价值得到充分发挥，尽可能减少其消极影响。 Starting from the definition of the Adolescent risk-taking behavior and the psychological characteristics of college students，several possible explanations for college students’ risk-taking behavior were proposed from a psychological perspective. Combined with the clinical case fragments of college psychological counseling，the psychological motivation behind the risk-taking behavior of college students was analyzed. It should help the counselors to better understand the risk-taking behaviors of college students. Its positive value would be brought into full play，and its negative effects would be reduced as much as possible.

Sensation seeking attitudes and risk-taking behaviors

1994 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 199-200
Author(s):  
J.J. López-Ibor ◽  
J.L. Carrasco
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Risk Taking Behaviors
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