Socioeconomic status and adolescents' risk-taking behavior: No longitudinal link or differences by neurobiological activation when anticipating social rewards.

ABSTRACT: This longitudinal, preregistered study investigated the hypothesis that adolescents who are raised in socioeconomic adversity engage in relatively more health-compromising risk-taking behavior during years when they show relatively heightened anticipation to social rewards. We operationalized this on a neurobiological level as activity of the ventral striatum, a region of the brain that is involved in social reward processing. A sample of 170 racially and socioeconomically diverse adolescents (12_years at Wave 1, 53 % women, 35 % Latine, 29 % White, 22 % Black) completed annual assessments for up to five years, yielding 478 total observations. During annual fMRI scans, adolescents completed a Social Incentive Delay task during which we measured activation of the ventral striatum

SUBMITTER: Armstrong-Carter E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11919294 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature