Sensation seeking as a predictor of positive and negative risk behaviour among adolescents

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 627-640

  Hansen, Ellen Beate ^a   Breivik, Gunnar ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF SPORT SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Sensation seeking; risk behaviour; adolescents

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035285987     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00061-1     Document Type: Article

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