Self-regulatory behavior and risk taking : causes and consequences /
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| Imprint: | Norwood, N.J. : Ablex Pub. Corp., c1991. |
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| Description: | xvii, 414 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1149797 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface / Lewis P. Lipsitt and Leonard L. Mitnick
- Pt. 1. Epidemiological Considerations: Preludes to Intervention. 1. Correlates and Predictors of Risk-Taking Behavior during Adolescence / Charles E. Irwin, Jr. and Susan G. Millstein. 2. Determinants of Early Childbearing and Other Adolescent Risk-Taking Behaviors: A Framework for Prevention Interventions / Joy G. Dryfoos. 3. An Epidemiological Approach to the Causes and Control of Violent Behavior / Felton Earls. 4. Developmental Epidemiological and Prevention Research on Early Risk Behaviors / Sheppard G. Kellam
- Pt. II. Developmental and Cultural Aspects. 5. Developmental Factors and Stress in Risk-Taking Behavior of Early Adolescents / Beatrix A. Hamburg. 6. Self-Regulation and Risk-taking Behavior: Hispanic Perspectives / Amado M. Padilla, V. Nelly Salgado de Snyder, Richard Cervantes and Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati
- Pt. III. Mechanisms and Processes. 7. Adolescent Exploratory Behavior: Precursors and Consequences / Diana Baumrind. 8. Sensation Seeking: The Balance Between Risk and Reward / Marvin Zuckerman. 9. AIDS and Sexual Behavior Risk Taking / John L. Martin. 10. Toward the Development of a Transactional Model of Risk Taking and Self-Regulation: Illustration through the Study of Maltreated Children / Dante Cicchetti, Douglas Barnett, Gerald J. Rabideau and Sheree Toth. 11. On the Constructive Role of Problem Behavior in Adolescence: Further Evidence on Alcohol Use / Rainer K. Silbereisen and Matthias Reitzle. 12. Perceptually Induced Misperception of Risk: A Common Factor in Transportation Accidents / H. W. Leibowitz. 13. Making Risky Decisions / Baruch Fischhoff and Lita Furby. 14. Cyberphysiology in Children: Its Relationship to Self-Regulatory Control / Karen N. Olness and Wayne Rusin
- Pt. IV. Psychopathology of Risk Taking. 15. Risk Taking and Decision Making / Leonard S. Zegans. 16. Impulse Control and Self-Destructive Behavior / Seymour Epstein. 17. Depression and Destructive Risk-Taking Behavior in Adolescence / Sidney J. Blatt
- Pt. V. Further Intervention Issues. 18. Risk Taking: An Operant Behavior Analysis / Michael F. Cataldo. 19. Possible Interventions with Risk-Prone Individuals: Insights From Studies of Resiliency / Julius Segal. 20. Enhancing Self-Regulatory Behavior Among Ethnic Minorities Through Social-Policy Prevention Strategies / Eduardo S. Morales
- Pt. VI. Implications and Speculations: Self-Regulation and Risk. 21. Reflections on Risk and Calibration / Mary Catherine Bateson. 22. Alcohol, Risk Taking, and the Quest for Commonalities / Dwight B. Heath. 23. The Type-T Personality / Frank Farley. 24. The Long Haul: An Integrative Overview / Louis Jolyon West
- Author Index
- Subject Matter.