A dual systems model of adolescent risk‐taking

Developmental Psychobiology - Tập 52 Số 3 - Trang 216-224 - 2010
Laurence Steinberg1
1Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122

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AbstractIt has been hypothesized that reward‐seeking and impulsivity develop along different timetables and have different neural underpinnings, and that the difference in their timetables helps account for heightened risk‐taking during adolescence. In order to test these propositions, age differences in reward‐seeking and impulsivity were examined in a socioeconomically and ethnically diverse sample of 935 individuals between the ages of 10 and 30, using self‐report and behavioral measures of each construct. Consistent with predictions, age differences in reward‐seeking follow a curvilinear pattern, increasing between preadolescence and mid‐adolescence, and declining thereafter. In contrast, age differences in impulsivity follow a linear pattern, with impulsivity declining steadily from age 10 on. Heightened vulnerability to risk‐taking in middle adolescence may be due to the combination of relatively higher inclinations to seek rewards and still maturing capacities for self‐control. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Dev Psychobiol 52: 216–224, 2010

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Developmental Psychobiology

Tập 52 Số 3

216-224

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