Citation

Duell N, Steinberg L, Chein J, Al-Hassan SM, Bacchini D, Lei C, Chaudhary N, Di Giunta L, Dodge KA, Fanti KA, Lansford JE, Malone PS, Oburu P, Pastorelli C, Skinner AT, Sorbring E, Tapanya S, Uribe Tirado LM, Alampay LP. Dev. Psychol. 2016; 52(10): 1593-1605.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/dev0000152

PMID

27598251

Abstract

In the present analysis, we test the dual systems model of adolescent risk taking in a cross-national sample of over 5,200 individuals aged 10 through 30 ( = 17.05 years, = 5.91) from 11 countries. We examine whether reward seeking and self-regulation make independent, additive, or interactive contributions to risk taking, and ask whether these relations differ as a function of age and culture. To compare across cultures, we conduct 2 sets of analyses: 1 comparing individuals from Asian and Western countries, and 1 comparing individuals from low- and high-GDP countries.

RESULTS indicate that reward seeking and self-regulation have largely independent associations with risk taking and that the influences of each variable on risk taking are not unique to adolescence, but that their link to risk taking varies across cultures. (PsycINFO Database Record

(c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved).

Language: en