ArticleJournal of adolescence2021
Examining a new prosocial risk-taking scale in a longitudinal sample of ethnically diverse adolescents.
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- Understanding Individual Differences in Prosocial Risk-Taking During Adolescence The Roles of Prosociality, Risk-Taking, and Social Orientation.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2026Article
- ADHD Characteristics Are Linked to Divergent Risk-Taking Behaviors.Journal of attention disorders · 2026Article
- Opposing Roles of Testosterone and Cortisol in Prosocial Risk-Taking.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Risking for Good: A Three-Wave Within-Person Analysis of the Reciprocal Relations Among Prosocial Risk Taking, Positive Risk Taking, and Prosocial Leadership.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2026Article
- Construction and validation of the prosocial adolescent risk-taking questionnaire (PAR-Q).Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The development of prosocial risk-taking behavior: Mechanisms and opportunities.Child development perspectives · 2025Article
- Job satisfaction has differential associations with delay discounting and risk-taking.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Are you more risk-seeking when helping others? Effects of situational urgency and peer presence on prosocial risky behavior.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Adolescents Are More Likely to Help Others on Days They Take Risks and Crave Social Connections.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2022Article
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Abstract
introductionThis longitudinal study designed and tested the validity of a new measure of prosocial risk taking - risks that individuals take in order to help others.
methodsThe sample was racially and ethnically diverse adolescents in the rural Southeastern United States (N = 867; Mage = 12.82 years, 10-14 years at Wave 1; 50% Girls, 33% White non-Latinx, 27% Latinx, 20% Black, 20% Mixed/Other race/ethnicity). Adolescents completed self-report measures of the new prosocial risk-taking scale at baseline and one- and two-year follow-ups.
resultsConfirmatory factor analysis demonstrated excellent model fit with a 6-item single factor score. Further, the scale demonstrated good test-retest reliability at one and two-year follow ups. The scale also demonstrated convergent validity, such that prosocial risk taking was positively correlated with prosocial tendencies, empathy, and sensation seeking, and negatively correlated with negative risk-taking behavior and risk tolerance. Finally, we found significant differences by race/ethnicity (but not by gender) in prosocial risk taking, which were not attributable to measurement invariance, and should be interpreted in the context of ongoing societal inequalities between youth.
conclusionsThe new Prosocial Risk-Taking Scale yielded reliable scores in our sample. It may be used in future research to investigate individual differences in adolescents' prosocial risk taking, developmental change in prosocial risk taking, and the significance of prosocial risk taking for adolescents' emotional and social adaptation.
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