Sensation Seeking Predicting Growth in Adolescent Problem Behaviors
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Sensation seeking predicting growth in adolescent problem behaviors.
There is limited literature on the relationship between sensation seeking and adolescent risk behaviors, particularly among African Americans. We tested the association between psychometrically-derived subscales of the Zuckerman Sensation Seeking Scale and the intercepts and slopes of individual growth curves of conduct problems, sexual risk taking, and substance use from ages 13 to 18 years by...
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عنوان ژورنال: Child Psychiatry & Human Development
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0009-398X,1573-3327
DOI: 10.1007/s10578-014-0486-y