Family conflict shapes how adolescents take risks when their family is affected.

ABSTRACT: Numerous studies have established that the social context greatly affects adolescent risk taking. However, it remains unexplored whether adolescents' decision-making behaviors change when they take risks that affect other individuals such as a parent. In the current study, we sought to investigate how the social context influences risky decisions when adolescents' behavior affects their family using a formalized risk-taking model. Sixty-three early adolescents (M_age = 13.3 years; 51% female) played a risk-taking task twice, once during which they could make risky choices that only affected themselves and another during which their risky choices only affected their parent. Results showed that adolescents reporting high family conflict made more risky decisions when taking risks f

SUBMITTER: Guassi Moreira JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5882608 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature