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      Around the world, adolescence is a time of heightened sensation seeking and immature self-regulation

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          <p class="first" id="P3">The dual systems model of adolescent risk taking portrays the period as one characterized by a combination of heightened sensation seeking and still-maturing self-regulation, but most tests of this model have been conducted in the United States or Western Europe. In the present study, these propositions are tested in an international sample of more than 5,000 individuals between ages 10 and 30 from 11 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, using a multi-method test battery that includes both self-report and performance-based measures of both constructs. Consistent with the dual systems model, sensation seeking increased between preadolescence and late adolescence, peaked at age 19, and declined thereafter, whereas self-regulation increased steadily from preadolescence into young adulthood, reaching a plateau between ages 23 and 26. Although there were some variations in the magnitude of the observed age trends, the developmental patterns were largely similar across countries. </p>

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              Age differences in sensation seeking and impulsivity as indexed by behavior and self-report: evidence for a dual systems model.

              It has been hypothesized that sensation seeking and impulsivity, which are often conflated, in fact 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, the authors examined age differences in sensation seeking and impulsivity 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 the authors' predictions, age differences in sensation seeking, which are linked to pubertal maturation, follow a curvilinear pattern, with sensation seeking increasing between 10 and 15 and declining or remaining stable thereafter. In contrast, age differences in impulsivity, which are unrelated to puberty, 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 excitement and relatively immature capacities for self-control that are typical of this period of development.
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                Journal
                Developmental Science
                Dev Sci
                Wiley-Blackwell
                1363755X
                March 2018
                March 01 2018
                : 21
                : 2
                : e12532
                Article
                10.1111/desc.12532
                6473801
                28150391
                72c9ef8d-357f-4200-b521-33ec29a1c461
                © 2018

                http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/tdm_license_1.1

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