Citation

Youssef GJ, Whittle S, Allen NB, Lubman DI, Simmons JG, Yücel M. Child Dev. 2016; 87(2): 395-404.

Affiliation

Melbourne Health.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/cdev.12480

PMID

26801968

Abstract

Few studies have directly examined whether cognitive control can moderate the influence of temperamental positive and negative affective traits on adolescent risk-taking behavior. Using a combined multimethod, latent variable approach to the assessment of adolescent risk-taking behavior and cognitive control, this study examined whether cognitive control moderates the influence of temperamental surgency and frustration on risk-taking behavior in a sample of 177 adolescents (Mage  = 16.12 years, SD = 0.69). As predicted, there was a significant interaction between cognitive control and frustration, but not between cognitive control and surgency, in predicting risk-taking behavior. These findings have important implications and suggest that the determinants of adolescent risk taking depend on the valence of the affective motivation for risk-taking behavior.

Language: en