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ERIC Number: EJ492573
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1994
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ISSN: ISSN-0001-8449
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Adolescents' Perceptions of Their Risk-Taking Behavior.
Gonzalez, Jeanette; And Others
Adolescence, v29 n115 p701-09 Fall 1994
Assessed 440 high and low sports and danger risk-taking adolescents. Sports risk takers reported more danger-related risk taking, more drug use, and higher self-esteem than non-risk takers. Danger risk takers reported greater sports-related risk taking, more drug use, less intimacy with their mothers, less family responsibility taking, and less depression than non-risk-taking counterparts. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Athletics, Attitudes, Child Responsibility, Depression (Psychology), Drug Use, Intimacy, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Risk, Self Esteem, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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