A Validation Study of the Adolescent Risk-taking Questionnaire
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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, 2000; Lavery, Siegel, Cousins, & Rubovits, 1993; Levitt, Selman, & Richmond, 1991). The propensity for risktaking is stronger in adolescent boys compared to girls. Irwin (1993) reported that boys die at more than twice the rate of girls from primary causes that are behavioural in origin. Such causes include violence, as well as intentional and unintentional injuries (Crunbaum & BasenEngquist, 1993; Irwin, 1993). In line with common views about what constitutes risk-taking behaviour, Moore and Gullone (1996) defined adolescent risk-taking as “behaviour which involves potential negative consequences (loss) but is balanced in some way by perceived positive consequences (gain)” (p. 347). If the positives far outweigh the negatives, the behaviour is rarely perceived to be risky whereas, when the negatives outweigh the positives, the behaviour is generally regarded to be extremely risky or even foolish. Thus, the level of perceived riskiness can predictably be A Validation Study of the Adolescent Risk-taking Questionnaire
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