ArticleFrontiers in psychology2025
The moderating role of legal emotions in the relationship between sensation seeking and risk-taking behaviors among college students.
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- Childhood emotional abuse and adolescent anxiety: a moderated mediation model of bullying victimization, perceived teacher legitimacy, and negative legal emotion.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The relationship between college students' legal cognition and maladaptive risk-taking behaviors: the moderating effect of need for cognitive closure.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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The dual-system model proposes that asynchronous maturation of the socioemotional and cognitive control systems underlies the high incidence of adolescent risk-taking. Although sensation seeking is strongly linked to such behaviors, the role of social emotions-particularly legal emotion-remains underexplored. In this study, 127 university students completed a sensation-seeking scale and the College Students' Legal Emotions Questionnaire. A subset of 110 participants with valid survey data then undertook an objective behavioral assessment of risk-taking (Balloon Analogue Risk Task). Results indicated that sensation seeking significantly and positively predicted risk-taking propensity, and that positive legal emotions attenuated this effect, whereas negative legal emotions showed no moderating impact. These findings highlight a novel intervention target: fostering positive legal emotions via school-based legal education may effectively reduce adolescent risk-taking behaviors.
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