Trial reportThe Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine2012
Adolescent risk taking under stressed and nonstressed conditions: conservative, calculating, and impulsive types.
Trial report in The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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- Acute stress impairs decision-making at varying levels of decision complexity.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- Impulsivity in adolescent girls diagnosed with trichotillomania: an evaluation of clinical and neuropsychological characteristics.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2024Article
- The role of early life adversity and inflammation in stress-induced change in reward and risk processes among adolescents.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2023Article
- Adolescents take more risks on days they have high diurnal cortisol or emotional distress.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2022Article
- Individual differences in accumbofrontal tract integrity relate to risky decisions under stress in adolescents and adults.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2020Review
- Racial Discrimination, Protective Processes, and Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Black Young Males.Archives of sexual behavior · 2019Article
- Moderated mediation of the link between parent-adolescent conflict and adolescent risk-taking: The role of physiological regulation and hostile behavior in an experimentally controlled investigation.Journal of psychopathology and behavioral assessment · 2019Article
- The Role of Mindful Parenting in Individual and Social Decision-Making in Children.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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- Toward Developing Laboratory-Based Parent-Adolescent Conflict Discussion Tasks that Consistently Elicit Adolescent Conflict-Related Stress Responses: Support from Physiology and Observed Behavior.Journal of child and family studies · 2017Article
- Low Cognitive Impulsivity Is Associated with Better Gain and Loss Learning in a Probabilistic Decision-Making Task.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
- Stress during Adolescence Alters Palatable Food Consumption in a Context-Dependent Manner.PloS one · 2016Article
- Adolescent brain maturation and smoking: what we know and where we're headed.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2014Review
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Abstract
purposeAdolescent risk taking may result from heightened susceptibility to environmental cues, particularly emotion and potential rewards. This study evaluated the impact of social stress on adolescent risk taking, accounting for individual differences in risk taking under nonstressed conditions.
methodsEighty-nine older adolescents completed a computerized risk-taking and decision-making battery at baseline. At follow-up, participants were randomized to a control condition, which repeated this battery, or an experimental condition, which included a social and cognitive stressor before the battery. Baseline risk-taking data were cluster-analyzed to create groups of adolescents with similar risk-taking tendencies. The degree to which these risk-taking tendencies predicted risk taking by stress condition was assessed at follow-up.
resultsParticipants in the stress condition took more risks than those in the no-stress condition. However, differences in risk taking under stress were related to baseline risk-taking tendencies. We observed three types of risk-takers: conservative, calculated, and impulsive. Impulsives were less accurate and planful under stress; calculated risk takers took fewer risks; and conservatives engaged in low risk taking regardless of stress.
conclusionsAs a group, adolescents are more likely to take risks in "hot cognitive" than in "cold cognitive" situations. However, there is significant variability in adolescents' behavioral responses to stress related to trait-level risk-taking tendencies.
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