Around the world,adolescence is a time of heightened sensation seeking and immature self‐regulation |
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| Authors: | Laurence Steinberg Grace Icenogle Elizabeth P. Shulman Kaitlyn Breiner Jason Chein Dario Bacchini Lei Chang Nandita Chaudhary Laura Di Giunta Kenneth A. Dodge Kostas A. Fanti Jennifer E. Lansford Patrick S. Malone Paul Oburu Concetta Pastorelli Ann T. Skinner Emma Sorbring Sombat Tapanya Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado Liane Peña Alampay Suha M. Al‐Hassan Hanan M. S. Takash |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA;2. King Abdulaziz UniversityThis research was supported by a grant to the first author from the Klaus J. Jacobs Foundation.;3. Department of Psychology, Brock University, St Catherines, Canada;4. Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA;5. Department of Psychology, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy;6. Department of Psychology, University of Macau, Macau;7. Department of Human Development and Childhood Studies, Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India;8. Department of Psychology, Università di Roma, Roma, Italy;9. Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, USA;10. Department of Psychology, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus;11. Department of Educational Psychology, Maseno University, Maseno, Kenya;12. Department of PsychologyUniversity West;13. Department of Psychiatry, Chiang Mai University, Thailand;14. Consultorio Psicológico Popular, Universidad San Buenaventura, Cali, Columbia;15. Department of Psychology, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, the Philippines;16. Queen Rania Faculty for Childhood, Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan |
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| Abstract: | The dual systems model of adolescent risk‐taking portrays the period as one characterized by a combination of heightened sensation seeking and still‐maturing self‐regulation, but most tests of this model have been conducted in the United States or Western Europe. In the present study, these propositions are tested in an international sample of more than 5000 individuals between ages 10 and 30 years from 11 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, using a multi‐method test battery that includes both self‐report and performance‐based measures of both constructs. Consistent with the dual systems model, sensation seeking increased between preadolescence and late adolescence, peaked at age 19, and declined thereafter, whereas self‐regulation increased steadily from preadolescence into young adulthood, reaching a plateau between ages 23 and 26. Although there were some variations in the magnitude of the observed age trends, the developmental patterns were largely similar across countries. |
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