conclusions parental style could play a different role in conducting risky behaviors among girls and boys. therefore, appropriate parental styles should be used in bringing up children based on their gender. background gender differences play an important role in risky behaviors such as drug use, of the youth. despite having a substantial youth population in the middle east north africa (mena) ...

In this study, the authors examined the relationships among parenting factors (closeness, communication, support, and monitoring), peer deviance, and adolescent risky sexual behavior in a sample of rural African American youth (N=689). Descriptive analyses revealed that risky sexual activity in this sample was common, with a little over half of the sample endorsing participation in one or more ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the extent to which effortful control (EC) and sensation seeking (SS) tendencies explain the association between the severity of ADHD symptoms and risky behaviors. METHOD Participants included 555 college students (66% females) who completed self-report measures assessing their ADHD symptoms, EC abilities, SS tendencies, and risky health (e.g., substance use) and driving/...

This paper presents a new approach to discrete choice analysis for risky prospects. Conventional discrete choice analysis focuses on riskless prospects and does not deal with the scenario where the alternatives that the decision-makers choose from are associated with risk. In this paper, we investigate decisionmakers’ risk perception and choice behaviour in choice experiments when they are faci...

While previous research has found that children make more risky decisions than their parents, little is known about the developmental trajectory for the ability to make advantageous decisions. In a sample of children, 5–11 years old, we administered a new risky decision making task in which the relative expected value (EV) of the risky and riskless choice options was varied over trials. Younger...

This study explored the influence of gender, religion, and parenting style on risky online behaviours in a sample of 825 Secondary 2 students in Hong Kong. Three risky online behaviours, namely, unauthorised acts (UNAC), internet stickiness (INST), and plagiarism (PLAG) were examined. It was found that males tended to be involved in more risky online behaviours than did females. Christians were...

With the establishment of the National Center for Advanced Translational Sciences (NCATS) in December of 2011, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the US government made a commitment to directly invest in translational research. With NCATS, the NIH will invest tax payer dollars in the riskiest ‘precompetitive’ stages of drug discovery. NCATS has also articulated a commitment to bring to...