Predictors of Positive and Negative Risk-Taking in Adolescents and Young Adults: Similarities and Differences.

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 gend

SUBMITTER: Fryt J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7957846 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature