Adolescents' perceptions of their risk-taking behavior

Assessed 440 high and low sports and danger risk-taking adolescents. Sports risk takers reported more danger-related risk taking, more drug use, and higher self-esteem than non-risk takers. Danger risk takers reported greater sports-related risk taking, more drug use, less intimacy with their mother...

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Published in:Adolescence 1994, Vol.29 (115), p.701-709
Main Authors: Gonzalez, J, Field, T, Yando, R, Gonzalez, K, Lasko, D, Bendell, D
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescents
Adults
At Risk Persons
Athletics
Attitude
Attitudes
Behavior
Biological and medical sciences
Child Responsibility
Dangerous Behavior
Depression (Psychology)
Depression - diagnosis
Developmental psychology
Drug Use
Family - psychology
Family Responsibility
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Indexing in process
Individuality
Intimacy
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Mothers
Parent Child Relationship
Peer Group
Perceptions
Personality Development
Personality Inventory - statistics & numerical data
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Psychometrics
Risk
Risk taking
Risk Taking Behavior
Self Concept
Self Esteem
Self Evaluation (Individuals)
self-perception
Social research
Teenagers
Young people
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Summary:Assessed 440 high and low sports and danger risk-taking adolescents. Sports risk takers reported more danger-related risk taking, more drug use, and higher self-esteem than non-risk takers. Danger risk takers reported greater sports-related risk taking, more drug use, less intimacy with their mothers, less family responsibility taking, and less depression than non-risk-taking counterparts. (Author/NB)
ISSN:0001-8449