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

ABSTRACT: 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 5000 individuals between ages 10 and 30 years 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.

SUBMITTER: Steinberg L

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6473801 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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

Steinberg Laurence L Icenogle Grace G Shulman Elizabeth P EP Breiner Kaitlyn K Chein Jason J Bacchini Dario D Chang Lei L Chaudhary Nandita N Giunta Laura Di LD Dodge Kenneth A KA Fanti Kostas A KA Lansford Jennifer E JE Malone Patrick S PS Oburu Paul P Pastorelli Concetta C Skinner Ann T AT Sorbring Emma E Tapanya Sombat S Tirado Liliana Maria Uribe LMU Alampay Liane Peña LP Al-Hassan Suha M SM Takash Hanan M S HMS

Developmental science 20170201 2

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 5000 individuals between ages 10 and 30 years from 11 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, using a multi-method test battery that ...[more]

PMID: 28150391

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Project description:BackgroundDual systems theories suggest that greater imbalance between higher reward sensitivity and lower cognitive control across adolescence conveys risk for behaviors such as heavy episodic drinking (HED). Prior research demonstrated that psychological analogues of these systems, sensation seeking and premeditation, change from childhood through emerging adulthood, and each has been independently linked with HED. However, few studies have assessed whether change over time in these developing analogues is prospectively associated with HED. Moreover, we know of no research that has shown whether within-person differences between higher sensation seeking and relatively lower premeditation across the adolescent period predict HED in emerging adulthood.MethodsProspective data from the National Consortium on Alcohol and NeuroDevelopment in Adolescence study (n = 715) were used to examine the association of sensation seeking and premeditation with HED among adolescents ages 16 to 20 years. We used novel applications of latent difference score modeling and growth curve analysis to test whether increasing sensation seeking, premeditation, and their imbalance over time are associated with HED across the study period, and whether these associations differed by sex.ResultsWhereas premeditation increased linearly from adolescence through emerging adulthood across sexes, males reported growth and females reported decline in sensation seeking. Sensation seeking in adolescence (and not premeditation) was associated with higher levels of HED by emerging adulthood. Importantly, greater imbalance between sensation seeking and premeditation was associated with higher levels of HED by emerging adulthood though we note that variability capturing this imbalance correlated highly (r = 0.86) with baseline levels of sensation seeking.ConclusionsDevelopmental imbalance between higher sensation seeking and lower premeditation in late adolescence may be a risk factor for greater HED in emerging adulthood.

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

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

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