The Adolescent Risk-Taking Questionnaire

A Validation Study of the Adolescent Risk-taking Questionnaire

Vol. 17, No. 3 2000 pp. 143–154 The adolescent developmental period has consistently been documented to be more strongly characterised by a propensity to engage in risk-taking behaviours than any other developmental period. Such behaviours have potentially dangerous or even fatal outcomes (e.g., Arnett, 1992; Flannery, Vazsonyi, & Rowe, 1996; Gonzalez et al., 1994; Gullone, Moore, Moss, & Boyd,...

The Adolescent Risk-Taking Questionnaire: Development and Psychometric Evaluation

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Peers and Adolescent Risk Taking

Adolescent risk taking occursmost oftenwhen teens are in the presence of their peers. An extensive body of prior work has attempted to explain this phenomenon with respect to peer pressure, social conformity, and affiliation with deviant peers. Recent experimental work, however, suggests that peer influences on adolescent decision making may be rooted in an even more basic process by which soci...

Risk-taking and the adolescent brain: who is at risk?

Relative to other ages, adolescence is described as a period of increased impulsive and risk-taking behavior that can lead to fatal outcomes (suicide, substance abuse, HIV, accidents, etc.). This study was designed to examine neural correlates of risk-taking behavior in adolescents, relative to children and adults, in order to predict who may be at greatest risk. Activity in reward-related neur...

Risky business: exploring adolescent risk-taking behavior.