Purpose: The present study was aimed to predict adolescents' tendency towards risk-taking behaviors based on self-efficacy and sensation seeking. Methodology: Research method was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population of the present study consisted of high school second-grade students in the fifth region off Tehran. From the schools of this region, two schools were randomly selec...

Background: Risk-taking and problematic behaviors is concern of parents, psychologists, schools, polices and social institutes. Cost caused by these dangerous behaviors is too heavy and irreversible. On the other hand researches indicate increase in dangerous behaviors in adolescence period. All these factors have leaded researcher’s attention to the protecting factors against dangerous b...