ArticleEurope's journal of psychology2021
Predictors of Positive and Negative Risk-Taking in Adolescents and Young Adults: Similarities and Differences.
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- Positive and negative risk-taking behaviors in adolescents: Distinct characteristics, interrelationships, and influencing factors.World journal of psychiatry · 2025Review
- Exploring Shared and Unique Predictors of Positive and Negative Risk-Taking Behaviors Among Chinese Adolescents Through Machine-Learning Approaches: Discovering Gender and Age Variations.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2025Article
- Emotional regulation self-efficacy and impulsivity effects on college students' risk-taking behavior: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- A Mixed-Methods Approach to Refining and Measuring the Construct of Positive Risk-Taking in Adolescence.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2023Article
- Adaptation and Validation of the Subjective Risk Intelligence Scale for Italian Adolescents (SRIS-A).Child psychiatry and human development · 2023Article
- Positive and Negative Risk-Taking in Adolescence and Early Adulthood: A Citizen Science Study During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- The Dark Factor of Personality and Risk-Taking.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
Although the risk-taking can potentially result in positive and negative outcomes, most of the researchers focused on its negative, not positive manifestations. Recently, Duell and Steinberg proposed a framework that clarifies the features of positive risk-taking. Research comparing positive and negative risk-taking increased and new measures have been developed. The presented study was designed to examine how the construct of positive risk-taking differs or overlaps with its opposite, negative risk-taking, and whether both are predicted by the same or different factors. Two hundred fifty eight (258) adolescents and young adults (aged 16-29) participated in the study. We tested self-reported sensitivity to reward and punishment, self-control, tolerance to ambiguity, trait anxiety, and gender as possible predictors of positive and negative risk-taking. We also referred both types of risk-taking to domain-specific risk-taking. We found that positive risk-taking is driven by sensitivity to reward and tolerance to ambiguity, and occurs especially in the social domain. Negative risk-taking is driven by gender, sensitivity to reward and (low) sensitivity to punishment, and occurs in all domains except social. Results indicate that positive risk-taking is chosen for exploration and personal growth by people who look for rewards in the social world and is done in a socially accepted way. Negative risk-taking is chosen by people who are not discouraged by severe negative effects and look for rewards outside existing norms.
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