Around the World, Adolescence Is a Time of Heightened Sensation Seeking and Immature Self-Regulation

• Main Authors: Steinberg, Laurence, Icenogle, Grace, Shulman, Elizabeth P, Breiner, Kaitlyn, Chein, Jason, Bacchini, Dario, Chang, Lei, Chaudhary, Nandita, Di Giunta, Laura, Dodge, Kenneth A, Fanti, Kostas A, Lansford, Jennifer E, Malone, Patrick S, Oburu, Paul, Pastorelli, Concetta, Skinner, Ann T, Sorbring, Emma, Tapanya, Sombat, Tirado, Liliana Maria Uribe, Alampay, Liane Peña, Al-Hassan, Suha M, Takash, Hanan M S
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2017
• Subjects: Child Psychology; Developmental Psychology; Psychology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/psychology-faculty-pubs/64; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1063&context=psychology-faculty-pubs
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

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 proposit...