@article{ref1,
title="The relationship between puberty and risk taking in the real world and in the laboratory",
journal="Personality and individual differences",
year="2014",
author="Collado-Rodriguez, A. and MacPherson, L. and Kurdziel, G. and Rosenberg, L. A. and Lejuez, C. W.",
volume="68",
number="",
pages="143-148",
abstract="Adolescence is marked by the emergence and escalation of risk taking. Puberty has been long-implicated as constituting vulnerability for risk behavior during this developmental period. Sole reliance on self-reports of risk taking however poses limitations to understanding this complex relationship. There exist potential advantages of complementing self-reports by using the BART-Y laboratory task, a well-validated measure of adolescent risk taking. Toward this end, we examined the association between self-reported puberty and both self-reported and BART-Y risk taking in 231 adolescents. <br><br>RESULTS showed that pubertal status predicted risk taking using both methodologies above and beyond relevant demographic characteristics. Advantages of a multimodal assessment toward understanding the effects of puberty in adolescent risk taking are discussed and future research directions offered.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0191-8869",
doi="10.1016/j.paid.2014.04.019",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.04.019"
}