Sensation Seeking, Peer Influence, and Risk-Taking Behavior in Adolescents

Brain Structural Correlates of Risk-Taking Behavior and Effects of Peer Influence in Adolescents

Adolescents are characterized by impulsive risky behavior, particularly in the presence of peers. We discriminated high and low risk-taking male adolescents aged 18-19 years by assessing their propensity for risky behavior and vulnerability to peer influence with personality tests, and compared structural differences in gray and white matter of the brain with voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and d...

Comparison of sensation seeking and high risk behaviors in normal and delinquent children and adolescents

Abstract: Background and Aim: Our lives from birth to death are accompanied by positive and negative emotions. For every human being, there is something happening in daily life, hearing news, passing thoughts and doing all that. They can create emotions or emotions in the negative sense of these emotions for children and adolescents in the form of delinquency. This study was conducted as a comp...

Sensation seeking in adolescents

Helmet Wearing Increases Risk Taking and Sensation Seeking

Humans adapt their risk-taking behaviour based on perceptions of safety; this risk compensation phenomenon is typified by people taking more risks when using protective equipment. Existing studies have looked at people who know they are using safety equipment, and have specifically examined changes in behaviours against which that equipment might reduce risk. We demonstrate risk-taking increase...

Role of Self-Efficacy and Sensation-Seeking in Predicting Adolescents' Tendency towards Risk-Taking Behaviors (Case Study: high school second-grade students in the fifth region of Tehran)

Purpose: The present study was aimed to predict adolescents' tendency towards risk-taking behaviors based on self-efficacy and sensation seeking. Methodology: Research method was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population of the present study consisted of high school second-grade students in the fifth region off Tehran. From the schools of this region, two schools were randomly selec...