The relationship between puberty and risk taking in the real world and in the laboratory |
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| Affiliation: | 1. ESRC Centre for Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies, Institute of Education, University of London, London WC1H 0AL, UK;2. Department of Psychology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK;3. Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Evidence Based Practice Unit, UCL and Anna Freud Centre, London, UK;4. BI: Norwegian Business School, Nydalsveien 37, 0484 Oslo, Norway;1. Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 4A Datun Rd, Chaoyang Dist, Beijing 100101, China;2. Department of Psychology, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, 402 N. Blackford St., LD126U, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA |
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| Abstract: | Adolescence is marked by the emergence and escalation of risk taking. Puberty has been long-implicated as constituting vulnerability for risk behavior during this developmental period. Sole reliance on self-reports of risk taking however poses limitations to understanding this complex relationship. There exist potential advantages of complementing self-reports by using the BART-Y laboratory task, a well-validated measure of adolescent risk taking. Toward this end, we examined the association between self-reported puberty and both self-reported and BART-Y risk taking in 231 adolescents. Results showed that pubertal status predicted risk taking using both methodologies above and beyond relevant demographic characteristics. Advantages of a multimodal assessment toward understanding the effects of puberty in adolescent risk taking are discussed and future research directions offered. |
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| Keywords: | Adolescents Risk-taking BART-Y Puberty |
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