Why Some Adolescents Engage in Risk-Taking Behavior

Risk-taking Behavior in Adolescents: The Paradigma

The majority of adolescents emerge from the second decade of life relatively unscathed by serious social, psychological, or physical disability. I4 Risk behaviors are largely responsible for the negative health outcomes among the remaining significant minority of adolescents. The primary immediate threats to adolescent health are preventable behaviors such as substance use, dangerous vehicle us...

Sleep and risk-taking behavior in adolescents.

The primary purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between adolescents' sleep-wake patterns and risk-taking behavior. A second goal was to replicate the results obtained by Wolfson and Carskadon (1998) regarding adolescents' sleep habits. Three hundred eighty-eight adolescents (217 males, 171 females) completed the Sleep Habits Survey and the Youth Risk Behavior Survey. The resul...

Life Satisfaction and Risk-taking Behavior in Secondary Schools Adolescents

INTRODUCTION Life satisfaction involves cognitive component that allows evaluation of the life and accomplishments of life, and emotional component that includes an evaluation of emotions and mood that followed these accomplishments. GOAL To examine the life satisfaction of young people who attend secondary school, examine the level of satisfaction with life according to sex, to academic achi...

Health, Risk-Taking Behavior and Sexuality in Swedish Adolescents

Adolescents' risk-taking behavior is driven by tolerance to ambiguity.

Adolescents engage in a wide range of risky behaviors that their older peers shun, and at an enormous cost. Despite being older, stronger, and healthier than children, adolescents face twice the risk of mortality and morbidity faced by their younger peers. Are adolescents really risk-seekers or does some richer underlying preference drive their love of the uncertain? To answer that question, we...