Risk-Taking Behavior

A. Haydon; A. L. McRee; C. T. Halpern

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-373951-3.00129-0

Risk-Taking Behavior

A. Haydon, A. L. McRee, C. T. Halpern

Pediatrics - Adolescent Health and Medicine

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Abstract

Increased risk taking during adolescence is the result of dynamic and continuous interactions that occur across multiple levels of influence. After first describing behavioral theories traditionally applied to adolescent risk taking, this article uses a developmental science framework to explore individual (biological, psychological, and cognitive), interpersonal (family, peers), community (school, neighborhood, media), and political/legal contributors to adolescent risk behavior. We emphasize that, rather than being uniformly destructive, risk taking can serve important developmental functions during adolescence.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of Adolescence
Publisher	Elsevier Inc.
Pages	255-263
Number of pages	9
Volume	3
ISBN (Print)	9780123739513
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-373951-3.00129-0
State	Published - 2011

Keywords

Adolescent development
Decision-making
Developmental science
Dual process models
Egocentrism
Family
Impulsivity
Media
Neighborhoods
Peer influence
Problem behaviors
Psychosocial conventionality
Puberty
Risk taking
Sensation seeking

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