Predictors of Adolescents' Positive and Negative Risk‐Taking: Similarities and Differences

PRT and NRT were both associated with higher sensation seeking, lower motor control and higher negative peer norm. Unlike negative risk taking, positive risk taking was associated with higher planning, the interaction between sensation-seeking and motor control and friendship quality. Our findings provide new information on the nuances of impulse control and positive and negative risk-taking, and have implications for understanding and promoting positive adolescent risk-taking, and PRT is an adaptive and strategic behavior compared to negative risk-taking, which can be facilitated by an increase in the planning and quality of friendship.