Sensation seeking and danger invulnerability: Paths to college student risk-taking

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 763-768

  Ravert, Russell D ^a   Schwartz, Seth J ^b   Zamboanga, Byron L ^c   Kim, Su Yeong ^d   Weisskirch, Robert S ^e   Bersamin, Melina ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Developmental psychology; Emerging adulthood; Invulnerability; Risk behavior; Sensation seeking

Indexed keywords

EID: 67849106232     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.06.017     Document Type: Article

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